U.S. OIL RESOURCES
Exhaustion In Sight ! (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 27. Exhaustion within 14 to 20 years of all the nation’s now known natural crude oil resources was predicted by the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Frank Knox, at a Press conference. Colonel Knox said that geologists believed there was little likelihood of new great deposits being discovered in the United States. Thus to avoid America becoming a “have not” nation its resources must be conserved and foreign resources developed.
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Southland Times, Issue 25691, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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