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Show ' COMMENTS ' INDISPENSABLE EMPLOYES Employes in no industry are more essential than those in oil. Every engine of war that moves today depends on this product to put life into it. Unspectacular jobs in the chemical laboratories and refining re-fining units of the oil industry are often the ones on which the future of war production and transportation depends. Constantly improved high-test gasoline and oils cannot I be made by amateurs, any more than can tanks and planes and ships be operated successfully by untrained men. It would be impossible to say which is the most important, armament or oil, one would be useless without the other. To illustrate: "If 1,000 two engined allied bombers raid only 400 miles into Europe from England, they will use more than 400,000 gallons of aviation fuel, not counting any used "by fighter escort," according to the chairman of the Petroleum Petro-leum War Council. The oil industry has been able to meet the tremendous load thrown upon it by present abnormal conditions as part of its days work. |