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Show THE AGE OF OIL With one exception, the art of printing, print-ing, it may be doubted if any single industry has brought so many sweeping sweep-ing changes to the world as has the modern production and use of petroleum. petrol-eum. With all its progress, all its technical techni-cal and scientific achievements, the world has found no substitute for petroleum pe-troleum as hand-maiden to the vast mechanisms of the industrial age. The multiplication of petroleum-driven vehicles ve-hicles has converted this vast continent conti-nent into a neighborhood, has increased in-creased the output and lightened the labors of the farm, has made the world's industrial progress possible and has had its effect on every phase of modern life. Americans know, and other nations know that petroleum is the source of much of the wealth and progress of the United States. |