SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



new jobs, supplying big tonnages of essential chemicals 

 for aviation gas, synthetic rubber, and high explosives. 

 Thanks to these illustrious war records, the people in 

 the gas and oil sections of the South and Southwest 

 have learned of the chemical values that are locked in 

 both these raw materials. 



Especially throughout the Gulf Coast region they 

 expect these chemical values to create new, profitable 

 industries. This expectation has turned the old issue of 

 the conservation of these natural resources sharply to 

 the right. No longer is it a worthy cause supported by 

 starry-eyed enthusiasts. It is a practical business and 

 political issue will Gulf Coast gas and oil be held and 

 processed right where it is produced for the benefit of 

 the home folks? 



Naturally, enthusiasm in the South for the three 

 famous war-built pipelines that drain the Southwest 

 fields is very chilly. The Little Big Inch carrying gaso- 

 line refined in Texas City to New York is tolerable. 

 But the Big Inch delivering three hundred thousand 

 barrels of Texas crude oil every day to refineries in the 

 Philadelphia-New York area is a very different matter. 

 As for the twenty-four-inch pipeline of the Tennessee 

 Gas and Transmission Company, which takes two hun- 

 dred and seven million cubic feet of gas one thousand 

 one hundred and sixty-five miles from Corpus Christi, 

 Texas, to Charleston, West Virginia well, the mere 

 mention of it gives a lot of Texans heartburn. 



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