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Writing in the September issue of Mining and Metallurgy, Humble's president struck a comprehensive, up-to-date balance sheet on oil. Crude requirements from domestic sources, now about 4,150,000 bbl.* daily, will reach an alltime peak of 4,400,000 bbl. in '44, which exceeds estimates of the maximum amount the U.S. can produce efficiently by 130,000 bbl. a day. This is an increase in daily demand of 525,000 bbl. in three years...
...they received in the same period last year and around 65% more than the first seven months of booming 1929 produced. Wages and salaries alone (at $56,761,000,000) amounted to 19% more than personal-income payments of all kinds in the year that used to mean Prosperity Peak...
Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...
...Human beings have their rhythms of elation and depression (according to a 15-year study by a University of Pennsylvania psychologist). These average either two or nine weeks from peak to peak...
...Animals and fish periodically thrive and decline. Many, notably lynx and salmon in Canada, have a cycle that averages nine and two-thirds years. A peak in elephants comes about every 62 years. Mice in the U.S. fluctuate in a four-year cycle; a plague sets them back every presidential-election year...