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...continue to dominate the petroleum industry. The rate of discovery of new oil in the U.S. has been falling steadily for five years (TIME. Nov. 17). Frederic H. Lahee, chief Sun Oil geologist, points out that in 1937 almost 1,700,000 barrels of oil were discovered for every wildcat hole drilled. By 1941 the figure was only 622,000 barrels. If this downward trend continues for another five years, new oil discoveries will fall below the amount used and oil reserves may begin a disastrous decline...
From Detroit, fourth city of the U.S., symbol and seat of America's industrial genius, had come news that made all citizens anxious. Sitdowns, wildcat strikes, poor planning, material shortages, short tempers and bad attitudes of union workers (see p. 71) had cut war production. A housing shortage forced some workers to live in tents, shacks and trailers. There was tragic, dirty confusion: in Macomb County, just north of the city, newly laid water mains were torn up to supply another area. Some 300 families of defense workers were forced to lug their water, some as far as three...
...from the knowing, energetic Detroit News, the city's largest newspaper (circ. 336,014), came a different reaction. Reprinting part of LIFE'S text, the News said: "It is a harsh indictment. To much of it Detroit must plead guilty." As to wildcat strikes and sitdowns, said the News, Franklin Roosevelt had asked for specific information. It urged all who knew about the unpublicized stoppages to write to the White House...
...worst State but the best. Said cocky Governor Homer M. Adkins: "Arkansans are now awake to the vast wealth and attractiveness of their State." Said reformed Renegade Bob Burns: "Now take my Uncle Doug. He used to walk barefoot on a barbed-wire fence with a wildcat under each arm. You know Doug-Douglas MacArthur...
Navy Planes. In naval aviation, a field where the top Navy men of all nations have been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined...