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Doctor of Science. Citation: "A geologist of rare imagination and wide vision, his enthusiasm has aroused psysicists, chemists and astronomers to cooperate in the advancement of his science...
...Angeles, Nelson J. Hansen, geologist, teamed up with Dr. Carl Omeron, dentist, to extract rubber from the red-flowered poinsettia...
...regard geology and geography as "pipes" to be taken as fifth courses or to pass a science requirement does not hold for the field itself. But industrious work will pay very practical dividends, as concentration in the field will prepare an undergraduate to pass the Civil Service junior geologist exam, to obtain a job in mining or oil, and a full understanding of map work is valuable for a military commission...
...stuff that came whooshing up out of the newly drilled well was-believe it or not-pure nitrogen. It may be, reports Nebraska Geologist Harold J. Cook in Science, the first nitrogen well ever struck. Drillers were hunting water on an eastern Wyoming ranch when, at a depth of only 156 ft., gas whistled...
Whether these increased risks are the reason or not, wildcatters are not finding as much oil as they used to. Geologist Wallace E. Pratt of Standard Oil of NJ. figures that brand-new oil discoveries in 1938-40 were only 2.6 billion bbl. against 5.15 billion in 1934-36. In 1928-30, when east Texas came in, the figure topped 10 billion. Demand, meanwhile, rose from 2.9 billion in 1928-30 to 4.3 billion in 1938-40. The lines are going in opposite directions, are leaving an oilless gap which may some day burn out the gears of U.S. industry...