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March 27, 1937 issue

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The whole of the U.S. mourns the victims of the school disaster at New London, Texas. Thus far the evidence indicates that a residue gas line from an oil field was tapped for its gas and that the use of the gas in a faulty conducting system resulted in the explosion. There is a tragic irony in the fact that in the Texas oil fields, spouting forth their natural wealth from the earth, such a disaster should have been occasioned by the desire to economize on heating costs. It is one of the paradoxes of an economic system that seeks to maximize profit and minimize costs and is wasteful only of human life.

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DISASTER victims; SCHOOLS; OIL fields; EXPLOSIONS; GAS fields; HEATING; COST control; TEXAS; UNITED States
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