Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that relations with the United States, which are so fundamentally important in our national life for patent reasons of commercial intercourse and neighborliness, unfortunately assume a character of indecision, frequently resulting in disagreement." Making it clear that he was referring to foreign oil investments, Senor Calles remarked that some petroleum men had assumed a rebellious attitude to the Government that "no independent country could accept," adding that foreigners must accept Mexican laws and not expect more than the rights of Mexicans, "who are the indisputable owners of their country." He claimed considerable success for the oil laws...
...There are those who hold it unrighteous to buy petroleum from Russia on the theory that to do so would be to purchase goods wrongfully confiscated from Russian subjects by the present governing power. If that view should generally prevail, then Russia could export nothing, as not only petroleum but other industries in Russia were nationalized. Is it more unrighteous to buy from Russia than to sell to it? Considerable purchases are made by Russia in the United States of cotton and other products...
More Oil. Scientists have been agreed that nature long since ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed...
...active head and Director Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology as chief adviser, to study alloys. Game. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Manhattan proposed a game for undergraduate chemists-let them try to find new uses for the many strange derivations that analysts have obtained from petroleum and other raw materials. Gassing a City. Dr. Harry Nicholls Holmes of Oberlin College (Ohio) took up the chemist's brief for gas warfare. He suggested that some city of perhaps 10,000 population be given about as much warning as it would get in wartime, that gas masks...
...years ago several mile-deep wells were opened near Los Angeles. Last week the General Petroleum Co. completed another in the neighborhood and thereby tapped a new oil level...