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  1. Production Dept., Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Texas, USA

    Douglas Ragland (member of AIME, is engineering manager)

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Ragland, D. The Great Engineering Implosion. JOM 15, 38–42 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03378214

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