Oil industries

Mud ruts and equipment from the work on the oil pipeline in western Pennsylvania. To the right of the pipe was two D-8 boom cats working together. They help each other and other equipment out of the deep mud. The clam shell is clamming out a cave-in. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Group of veteran pipeliners stringing pipe for emergency by-pass loop in Arkansas. The by-pass loop restored major oil movement to the East which was disrupted by a flood on the Arkansas River. Many pipeliners worked 24 hours at a stretch to help complete the by-pass loop quickly. Five hundred veteran pipeliners volunteered to build the 8-mile by-pass of the flood break in the "Big Inch". All workers unidentified.

Arkansas flood waters that washed away a levee half-a-mile inland from point where torrential current cut new river channel and severed deeply buried "Big Inch" pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas.

Flooded Arkansas River that stalled "Big Inch" pipeline deliveries of oil for the East. The Arkansas River flooded thousands of acres before severing the War Emergency Pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas. The break was detoured by quick construction of an 8-mile emergency loop and eastward oil movements were restored.

Broken levee at Arkansas River. Veteran pipeliners jumped the flood with an emergency pipeline span across a railroad bridge at Little Rock to restore the major movement of oil for the East through the Petroleum Administration's principal pipeline project for maintenance of East Coast supplies of oil for war.

Ralph K. Davies (left), Deputy Petroleum Administrator for war, and William R. Boyd, Jr. (right), Chairman of the Petroleum Industry War Council, carrying telegrams from the Executive office of the White House regarding the progress of the Rubber Stockpile Drice which they and Secretary Harold Ickes have just exhibited to the President.

Group of people participating in Rubber Stockpile Drive. On right is Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War. All others unidentified.

First piercing operation of first length 24 inch seamless for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc at Lorain Works.

First length of 24 inch seamless for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. at Lorain Works.

First length of 24 inch seamless for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc. (oil pipelines) at Lorain Works.