... rights reserved 1935 American Association of Petroleum Geologists On May 27, 1933, the Securities Act of 1933, regulating the sale of all securities offered to the public, with certain exemptions, was signed by President Roosevelt. This was followed approximately one year later by the Securities...

... Security. 52 “ Maßnahmen zur Zersetzung ”, literally: measures of disintegration 38 During much of the Berlin Blockade, Ferdinand Friedensburg was acting mayor of Berlin and thus in the center of the political turmoil ( Keiderling 2009 ). 23 Among these young geologists...

... prospecting permits and others and to endeavor to renew both the Middle and South dome agreements with a view to consummating coöperative or unit plans authorized under the act of March 4, 1931. These efforts eventually led to the Middle dome agreement which was approved by the Secretary, September 30, 1933...

..., 1933, when Congress passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (TVA Act; Statutes at Large, 1934 and U.S.C., 2020b ) in response to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision for, “a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative...

..., prestige, methodology and, in extremis , even in content. The following paper endeavors to give an idea of the variety of personal conduct with which German geoscientists reacted to the National Socialist rule under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. The geologists presented here, and their biographies...

... in the Petroleum Industry promulgated under the National Industrial Recovery Act in the early autumn of 1933 was a period of uttermost demoralization in the petroleum industry. It was a period of over-production, low prices, attempts at voluntary proration, hot oil, military law in the Oklahoma City and East Texas...

... and cut the deficit, went so far as to suggest an executive order making NSF responsible for all federally sponsored basic research. 90 Waterman must have seen the negative aspects of this proposal; he made sure that Robert Cairns, the acting Assistant Secretary for Research and Development...

... began: a Museum of Economic Geology (1837) under a separate government department ( Morrell 2005 , p. 159); a Mining Records Office (1840); a quasi-permanent team of salaried workers ( Morrell 2005 , p. 171), including Phillips and the young Andrew Ramsay (1841), which grew to thirteen geologists...

... result of the first treatment was more than 11,100 barrels. This oil was in addition to that expected under the original estimated decline curve. Approximately 1,000 barrels were required to offset all work-over costs. The second fracturing treatment restored the well to a rate equal to that secured...

... entire share of the Suez Canal Co. for £4 million. The transaction, financed by Baron Lionel de Rothschild, capitalized on Egypt's near total bankruptcy, and by securing a majority shareholding, the British preempted the French from doing just that. Britain occupied Egypt in 1882 under the guise...

... of Cambridge had qualified him rather than Simpson for early promotion and the higher military responsibility that went with it. 39 Paver was ‘posted for service’ on 1 August 1940 in South Africa’s ‘Full time volunteer forces’ 40 and ‘appointed to commissioned rank’ as a ‘Lieutenant (Acting Captain...

...) wrote: The scientific men of the country, especially those who were in any way serving the government, as well as the public,—geologists, botanists, astronomers, engineers, and explorers,—came to rely greatly upon him for securing the appropriations that they needed to carry on or enlarge...

..., James Wordie (the geologist on Shackleton's 1914 expedition and Elephant Island castaway) spotted and supported the application; so in 1934 Alex came to Cambridge as a Johnian and one of the first research students in C.E. Tilley's newly assembled Department of Mineralogy and Petrology. L.R. Wager...

... Sciences that I was unable to take up the recently offered staff position. That El Salvador mine visit in 1966 was not a career enhancing occasion because during a welcome dinner with Chief Geologist Lew Gustafson (1933–2023) and his staff at the rather fancy company guest house, I shook a bottle...

... for scientists, Walter taught—apart from a short teaching job in Bucharest, Rumania—at secondary schools in Kiel from 1920 until his retirement in 1949 (except during the Second World War, when he was once again given the position of military geologist). In addition, under the order of the Ministry of Art...

... on which it was situated and only under exceptional circumstances be allowed to go beyond it. A legal recognition of rights existing in underground waters ought to be introduced which might go some way towards countering opposition (26: 643 and 26: 740–741). The views of Symons and the geologists were...

... by a local woman, called the Pythia, who acted as a medium for the god Apollo. Her state of trance could be induced only in the small enclosed chamber ( adyton ) below the floor level of the Temple of Apollo, adjoining a larger room for priests and consultants. Once inside the sunken chamber, the Pythia...

... geologists would like to do. He worked out a surface structure, leased up the land, promoted a well on it, and when the well was completed for a big flowing oil well, he sold his interest in it and the block for $750,000. This well was the F. B. Parriott (acting for Benedum and Trees) 1 Duke in Eastland...

..., more geologists will be trained, but many of them will enter non-petroleum-based geological fields, and others will cling to their original career objective, i.e. , teaching—where the financial rewards are increasing rapidly and the job security now exceeds, by a wide margin, that which has been...

... was to be conducted by geological, topographical, zoological, and botanical departments, each supervised by a specialist under the direction of a state geologist ( Allen and Martin, 1922 ). This organizational format reflects Houghton’s concept of natural history, as developed at Rensselaer under Amos Eaton. His...