Abstract
At the time of the Denver meeting last year, many geologists and geophysicists were frankly in doubt as to where their duty lay in the war effort. This year there should be much less uncertainty as we have been given a task on the home front which will tax our resources to the utmost. The task, to locate 4500 wildcat wells so judiciously that neither steel nor manpower will be wasted in unjustified drilling. The facts which seem to make necessary this enormous wildcat drilling program in the face of a national shortage of critical materials and manpower have been widely publicized in the trade journals, and I will only briefly recapitulate them.
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