National Affairs: Big Week for Wilbur

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When Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur goes back to California and his home at Stanford University, it is to work, not to play. Last week he was hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit...

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