progress parade brings you a collection of true stories of american work smoothly is two miles straight down at the bottom of the drill hole found thousand feet below the surface the drill pipe has broken off close to the drill bit broken pipe with a bit hole for a special specialist they call fisherman meanwhile the drilling pipe above the break all ten thousand feet of it must be removed disconnected and stacked whenever a broken pipe drill bit or anything else is lost down in the drill hole it is next named  h the arrival of a fisherman a specialist who makes his living by fishing and drill holes a most unusual operation begin kind of a job three days and many fishing attempts later they try another special fishing tool maybe this one will work but they have no way of being when he has the tool two miles down the field his way carefully cautiously uses the gauges as user experience says guy down it goes over the stuff until there it is caught two miles underground but will the toolholder fish all the way up here's the payoff yes the fish is caught our dry land fisherman has saved this one hundred thousand dollars drilling investment all the trolling can continue to see if it strikes  baby demands comfort all right and if he doesn't get it formal protest is to unregister fantastic amount of investment equipment scientific skill and complex engineering competing on oil companies spend over a hundred and fifty million dollars every year in progressive research just to develop and improve new products is one of the hundreds of products from petroleum and many homes that is one of our most useful handiness it cooks our food it's our water and treat metals for us thousand industrial uses lp gas prevents railroad switches from freezing and thus keeps the trains running one important uses providing the cooking fuel for restaurants throughout the nation last year six billion gallons of lp gas were transported and sold in the united states now how would you transport this l that boils well below the freezing point of water the oil companies solve the problem by developing specially built tank cars and saying trucks permitting lp gas to be handled and stored in liquid form one cubic foot of this amazing liquid becomes three hundred cubic feet of baber which will do the work of seven hundred m fifty cubic feet of natural gas all major achievement of the competing oil companies as burma development of techniques for here's a man who wears to have of course he's only wearing one half that familiar one you see every time you drive into your neighborhood service station perhaps you've already found out he's one of the most conscientious citizens of your town in addition to his regular occupation he may be all self a member of one of the reserve components of the armed forces another service station dealer might be a member of your local civil defense barga or one of those fire eaters on the volunteer fire department unpaid member of the board of education or serves only advisory committee for civic improvement foreigners touring our country have commented many times that service station dealers are the most american americans  they say the dealers are cheerful and efficient they reflect the freedom of opportunities we cherish so highly that's why we say your neighborhood service station dealer is truly a man who is qualified to where to fisherman claimed that boyle production was killing off the local feistier population the oil companies didn't agree but they decided to look into the matter they started what developed into a two million dollars to research program scientists went out to the betting grounds where they collected buckets full of oysters and then brought them to a special foster research center of texas a and m college one of the laboratories a stablished for the oyster survey by the oil compan the research laboratory every type of condition is created for the oyster patient drilling mud was emptied into the water even dynamite charges were exploded near test  every possibility was explored after years of study and progress the results were in the test oysters showed no ill effects from all you know even under conditions which far exceeded those ever present during the oil production as a the scientists continued their progress bicester tissues were prepared for intensified examination and study no possibility was overlooked it was further found that natural changes in the gulf coast and manmade improvements such as levees together with climatic changes were seriously affecting the proper mixture of fresh and salt water in the just good business as long as some industry are free to lend a helping hand to each other than everyone benefit