Word: arnott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program, however, did little good, largely because the East Texas refiners and some major companies could not be persuaded to join the pool. Month after his announcement, Secretary .Ickes made use of powers delegated to him by President Roosevelt, wrote Socony-Vacuum's Vice President Charles E. Arnott, then chairman of the Marketing Committee of the Planning and Coordination Committee of the petroleum industry...
With the departure of Brother Herbert went other changes in Socony's high command. John A. Brown, executive committee chairman, was made president, and President Charles E. Arnott stepped down to a vice-presidency in order to devote more time to his plans for stabilizing the oil industry...
...most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon saw that at least two-thirds of the P. C. C. frankly favored price-fixing, that only one, President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp.* was a die-hard freemarketer...
...three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded as a vested right their power to set the price for the whole industry, were muted...
...outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells, almost any place where they can hide from the natural men whom they often mortally...