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...nutshelled the current confusion over oil. Just as neatly, oil-wise Mr. Wiess, whose company (a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiary) is one of the U.S.'s biggest oil producers, last week set forth figures to drive home to the layman a still-incredible fact : the pinch in oil may be just beginning...
...date, as oilmen well know, OPA has steadfastly refused to permit an increase in oil prices. At present oil imports from South America are increasing, but will not ease the civilian gasoline pinch because: 1) war requirements will have to be met first; 2) South America has no excess refinery capacity now to take the strain off overloaded U.S. refineries; 3) the U.S. expects to use South American oil to fuel any large-scale offensive in the Pacific because production in California, now fueling the Pacific operations, cannot be increased sufficiently to supply a big push...
Seagrave often found it expedient to give his nurses unusual responsibility: they gave hypodermics, anesthesia, made diagnoses, delivered babies, drove ambu lances, took full charge of small, outlying hospitals, and in a pinch oven did surgery (under his eye). With the aid of these girls and the local masons, the doctor built a 100-bed hospital out of local cobblestone for $20,000. He followed it with a nurses' home and, finally, a cottage for himself-just in time for the Japs to take over...
...begin with, skim over your notes lightly. Beat well with an unslid slide rule and dispose of the remains over your left shoulder as indifferently as you would a pinch of salt. Now you are on your...
Furniture, second largest U.S. industry in the consumer durable goods field, has finally been driven by material and labor shortages from the state of pinch into near chaos. The bad news...