War Emergency Pipe-line Systems and Other Petroleum Facilities: Hearings Before the Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources and the Surplus Property Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on War Emergency Pipe-line Systems and Other Petroleum Facilities. November 15 ,16, and 17, 1945United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 431 páginas |
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