Every time I see an ad for gas grills I think of Hank Hill

Now you’re cooking out with gas.

It’s simple with a gas grill. You get real outdoor flavor. With no lighter fluids, no ashes, no mess. No waiting, either. Gas reaches cooking temperature fast, then keeps the exact heat you want. So go ahead. Broil steaks. Grill hamburgers. Barbecue a nice big turkey. And eat by soft gas light. For grills and gas lights see your gas company or your local dealer.

Gas gives you a better deal

AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION, INC.

So, how many of these are left?

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What a way to run a “monopoly!”

You’re looking at some of the brands and names of companies that sell gasoline. Some people say oil companies are a monopoly. If so, it’s the world’s most inept “monopoly.”

This “monopoly” is so inept that it offers the world’s richest country some of the world’s most inexpensive gasoline.

This “monopoly” is so inept that it lets everybody and his brother horn in on the action. Did you know that of the thousands of American oil companies, none has larger than an 8.5% share of the national gasoline market?

In fact, this “monopoly” is so inept that you probably wouldn’t recognize that it is a monopoly because it looks so much like a competitive marketing system.

People who call us a monopoly obviously don’t know what they’re talking about.

Union
Union Oil Company of California
Los Angeles. California 90017

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New Pipe Lines Point to Gas Heating Era

By ALDEN P. ARMAGNAC

CHICAGO is going to get natural gas. San Francisco already has it. New York may get it. This is likely to make radical changes in the daily lives of millions of Americans who live in, or near, those cities. For natural gas is cheap gas.

Natural gas comes from wells where Nature put it and is free for the finding. It is better than manufactured gas because it has twice as much heat in it. It is, therefore, far cheaper to use, even when the price, by the cubic foot, is the same for each. Read the rest of this entry »

Huh, this sounds exactly like the platform of a certain political party, no?

A platform in search of a candidate

Many a political pundit has noted that people generally vote their pocketbooks. They tend to elect the candidates they believe capable of steering the nation toward better times—more jobs, a higher standard of living, and the achievement of both personal aspirations and national goals.

Now, in the midst of the presidential campaign, we’re listing some points that are often overlooked in all the speechmaking, but bear directly on America’s economic health—a platform in search of a candidate, so to speak. In a nonpartisan spirit, and with profound respect, we urge that the next President:
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Fireworks Find Oil

By EMERSON G. SMITH
Continental Oil Company

That newcomer in industrial science, the Geophysicist, builds a little earthquake, listens to the result, and takes the guesswork out of petroleum exploration.

THE waves sent out by an earthquake travel at varying speeds in different kinds of earth and rock. Knowledge of these speeds permits the calculation of the approximate distance of the ‘quake after a seismograph gives its reading.
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A phantom herd… from deep down underground

Not long ago the primary source of glycerine was herds of cattle! Fats from these animals were transformed, by the makers of soap, into glycerine.

Gliding unseen through underground pipelines to the refinery and then the chemical plant, petroleum has become the partner of cattle herds. From the products of petroleum, Shell Chemical has been making high-quality glycerine since 1948.

Today, Shell glycerine fills about one-third of
America’s needs. It goes into ink, explosives, lipstick … cellophane and tobacco … toothpaste, paint, even sausage casings. It’s used in more than 1500 different ways … in just about every industry.

Manufacture of glycerine from the products of petroleum is another Shell Chemical contribution to the nation’s industry.
Shell Chemical Corporation
Chemical Partner of Industry and Agriculture

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Table-Top Oil Refinery FOR THE HOME CHEMIST

By RAYMOND B. WAILES

Mechanized Armies Make Oil Supply Vital,” “Shortage of Fats Imperils Nation at War”—headlines like these spotlight what used to be routine items in a country’s shopping list, and give them new interest for home-laboratory experimenters.

Envious eyes the world over turn toward our vast forests of oil derricks, and the rivers of crude oil that refineries turn into gasoline for vehicles of war and peace. What makes their enormous production possible is the modern “cracking” process for extracting gasoline. Once the crude oil was simply distilled to separate, in turn, the gasoline and other substances it contained. Today, in addition, by-products of the distillation are “cracked” or broken down into gasoline, doubling the total yield.
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Gee, things sure have changed a whole lot since then.

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OIL – Modern WAR GOD Threatens the World

Black gold, precious underground liquid, is food for the modern war machine. Deprived of it, a nation’s military campaign is threatened with failure. Will oil become an instrument to enforce peace or to cause war?

WITHIN the last few decades, oil has changed from an almost unknown and unnecessary commodity to one of the world’s most vitally needed materials. Oil, unlike nitroglycerin, has always been an innocent, viscous fluid used for lubrication and fuel. But harmless petroleum, like Dr. Jekyll, has undergone a startling transformation. Oil may yet be the means whereby the flaming torch of war is carried across the world.
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