Like frost traceries upon a window pane, 81,000 miles of pipelines fan out over the U. S. from the nation's three chief natural gas fields: 1) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky; 2) Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana; 3) Southern California. Last year these capillaries of modern commerce carried so much gas (1,336,863,000,000 cu. ft.) that Congress passed the Natural Gas Act giving the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate pipelines similar to what it already had over interstate transmission of electricity. Last week FPC received from Kansas Pipe Line & Gas...
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