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    <title>fascinating oil business</title>
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    <title>Oil business</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ball, Max W. (Max Waite)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1885-1954</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>The Bobbs-Merrill Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1940</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>420 pages : illlustrations (incl. maps) ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>What is oil? -- Meet the oil men --Picking the place to drill --Picking the place to drill in practice -- Acquiring the right to drill
Drilling the well -- Drilling another well -- Producing the oil-the principles of it -- Producing the oil-the mechanics of it-- Transporting the oil --Refining the oil-the chemistry of it 
Refining the oil-the efining the oil-the continued -- Refining the oil-specifications and desing -- Refining the oil-the refinery -- 
Disposing of the products -- New worlds to conquer -- New worlds to conquer -- Oil in the old world -- Oil in the new world.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Max W. Ball; illustrations by Jack Housez, maps by Sven W. Reims and C.G. Mundy.</note>
  <note>Maps on lining-papers.</note>
  <note>Includes Index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Petroleum industry and trade</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Industria y comercio del petróleo</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Industria del petróleo</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">TN 870 B187f 1940</classification>
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