OPENING A GUSHER 



"Petroleum is practically the one lubricant of the world today. No railroad wheel turns 

 without its way being smoothed by it. Great turbines move on bearings that are smothered 

 in it. From it we get the quick-exploding gas which is to the motor and airship what air is 

 to the human body — therefore to waste it is a crime" (see text, page 597). 



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