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| #4624374 in Books | University of Oklahoma Press | 2012-12-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.38 x5.50l,.43 | File type: PDF | 136 pages | |||
|“There is much more to a barrel of oil than [42 gallons], as Robert E. Hardewicke demonstrates with humor and erudition.”—Columbia Law
For a country accustomed to counting its resources in millions, or even billions, the unit of measure is almost too small to be of interest. But during a lunch break one day, Robert E. Hardwicke asked of his colleagues in the Petroleum Administration for War why American oil is measured by the 42-gallon barrel and no other. Why not 30, 36, or an even 50? No one present had the answer, but a dozen years later, and after extensive research, Hardwicke produced the a...
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