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 1460.    HOLADAY, W. M., ALBRIGHT, R. E., UPJOHN, T. E., AND STEFFENS, L. R.  Fuels – Their Present and Future Utilization.  Oil Gas Jour., vol. 48, No. 27, 1949, pp. 277-304; Petrol. Processing, vol. 4, No. 11, 1949, pp. 1233-1244.

        Trends in energy consumption; utilization developments; future availability of fuels are discussed in a paper presented at the annual American Petroleum Institute meeting, November 1949.  Presents potential and practical possibilities for converting natural gas, coal, and oil shale into liquid fuels.  Exhaustion of petroleum supplies is too remote to warrant active development of the above additional sources of liquid fuels at present.  Of the 3 sources, shale oil appears to offer the best prospects.

       HOLDEN, J. H.  See abs. 3306.

       HOLLIMAN, W. C.  See abs. 3220.