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Standard Oil (N.J.) President William S. Farish suggested a doubling of capacity last December. It will be harder now. Of 435 U.S. oil-refining plants only 15 now make aviation fuel. But even the 15 will have trouble getting steel and machinery. If started tomorrow, a high-octane cracking plant could not produce before August...
...Waldorf-Astoria for the final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered...
...familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column. In a round table that touched on plant capacity, Steelman Hook and Oilman Farish both said their industries had enough...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
...general impression has been that Mr. Farish is much older than Mr. Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 59, Mr. Parish 56. Mississippi-born, a graduate of the University of Mississippi (Class of 1900), a short-time Mississippi lawyer (in Oxford), Mr. Farish joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard...