Oil industries

Official Inspection Party at Defense Plant Corporation financed chemical manufacturing plant somewhere in Arkansas. Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, center. All others unidentified.

Official Inspection Party at Defense Plant Corporation financed chemical manufacturing plant somewhere in Arkansas. Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, third from right. All others unidentified.

O'Mahoney Committee hearing regarding disposal of Government owned pipelines. All men unidentified, except Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney at end of table.

O'Mahoney Committee hearing regarding disposal of government owned pipelines. All men unidentified.

O'Mahoney Committee hearing regarding disposal of Government owned oil pipelines. All men unidentified.

O'Mahoney Committee hearing regarding disposal of Government owned oil pipelines. All men unidentified.

First trainload of 24 inch seamless for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. Ralph K. Davies fourth from right. All other men unidentified.

First carload of 24 inch seamless pipe for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, standing fourth from right on ground. All other men unidentified.

Aerial view of flood waters on right of way from Arkansas River. Despite the near impassable flood conditions on Arkansas and Missouri right of way, pipeliners pushed construction work on the Petroleum Administration's second Texas-East Coast oil artery, the 20 inch War Emergency Products Pipeline.

View of flood water from Arkansas River that caused construction to halt on second War Emergency Pipeline near site of "Big Inch" break under rampaging River.