+ World Tomorrow 3:157 My ’20 400w
ALDERSON, VICTOR CLIFTON. Oil shale industry. il *$4 Stokes 622
20–14240
The book heralds the birth of a new industry: the extracting of oil from oil shale, which, in the face of our growing demand for oil, the diminishing supply of underground oil, and the almost inexhaustible supply of raw material in the form of oil shale, promises to be one of paramount importance. Contents: The dawn of a new industry; Nature, origin, and distribution of oil shale; The history of oil shale; Mining oil shale; Retorting and reduction; Experimental and research work; Economic factors; Summary; Opinions; The future; Bibliography, index and illustrations.
“Not a finished work as far as statistics are concerned, but a good survey of a comparatively new industry.”
+ Booklist 17:143 Ja ’21
“For a scientific work it is too uncritical and in such remarks as ‘mountains of shale’ it is reminiscent of a promoter’s prospectus. In fact, the whole book is written with too much apparent intention to see all the favorable points and to disregard the at present unfavorable ones.”
− N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 230w
ALDON, ADAIR. At the sign of the Two Heroes. il *$1.75 (3½c) Century