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It was, therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gas Re-cycled | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

To the big operator whose large underground oil reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gas Re-cycled | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Members of the National Association of Life Underwriters, faced by the usual question of how and where to sell, were apparently still groggy from the recent topping of the $100,000,000,000 mark in total life insurance. Titles of addresses were: "The Market for the Second Hundred Billion," "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Second Hundred Billion | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

The U. S. owns one-fifth of the U. S. Last week President Hoover was inclined to give half of this away to persons who apparently did not want it. His offer, in the name of Conservation, had strings to it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Free Land | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

The American Council for the Conservation of Whales sadly predicts the animals will soon be exterminated. They reproduce only once in 12 months, are slaughtered at the rate of 30,000 annually.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whales | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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