DANGER! KEEP OUT

by Edward J. Nichols ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 12, 1942

Reported originally in the October 1st bulletin as follows: ""A series of profile-like sketches of the people, departments, activities of an oil refinery, that combine to give the portrait of an industry which demands close cooperation between departments and men. There is no plot, no central character, no single thread to bind the whole into one -- other than the plant itself. Here are the pressure stills, the day shift, the old line bosses and workers, the newcomers -- efficiency experts, chemists, research men, and their dreams of futures; there are the occupational tragedies, labor troubles, reactions of men to women workers. There is the life outside the plant, the picture of the days of crude oil production, the clash as new ways come in, the close feeling of man for their jobs and their plant. First hand story of the drama of the works, with the human element well reported, and a somewhat technical approach to the plant itself. Less colored by the social aspects of the problem than, for example, the Hlper books.

Pub Date: Jan. 12, 1942

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1942

Categories: FICTION