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Show U. S. Oil Reserves At Record Level The petroleum industry has built the nation's known oil reserves re-serves to the highest level in history, a total of almost twenty-seven billion barrels. During 2( 1948, alone, more lion barrels were ain serves--the bipep,ta(lfei i crease in almost aVejl : Throughout the k ec U. S. oil industry " ! kept ahead of the'iSe of Petroleum p-even p-even in 1849, when ' by the name of V f-peddled f-peddled his "Rock Volu Pint bottles arounc?1 i- - side as a "wonderful he urged buyers to "p, O this wonderful ZJ.; K pleted from NatuS l This cry of J been raised man , But known reserved Hi creased almost Qal h lJ 1925, for example, reserves amounted t "T billion barrels 0il 1'' lVl the ground meanwhile 1 tared 28.4 billion M N three times the m r reserves-yet tod Th ground crude oil V ' ' S , just about triple J ask 25 years ago. to.: B,oa,c, Geologists, moreove, J car y that oil resources of t ' h yet to be discovered a,! The i twice our present k i,0nd serves. This would m . ' 2 1 oil than the nation & 1 for $: duced during the Pas, ! Th( years, or since 1859, V build when commercial J' bv tr began. . duc |