Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Production. Aside from Sir Henri and the Shell-Socony war, oilmen were chiefly interested in the perennial problem of overproduction. When 1929 began, there were in storage 625,000,000 barrels of crude oil, representing excess of production over consumption. Production during 1929 totaled about 200,000 barrels a day...
On the other hand, although the government failed to endorse the American Petroleum Institute's national program of oil restriction, oilmen have made marked progress through state-by-state restriction agreements. There is no overproduction problem in Pennsylvania fields; Texas oilmen have on the whole cooperated enthusiastically with the restriction...
New Jersey's Teagle. Huge is the Standard of New Jersey organization, but not too huge for the personal domination of Walter Clark Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. When he opens the door of the company's offices, his presence is instantly...
Mr. Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that...
When a Virginia gentlewoman needs to do something for a living she is likely to do something worthwhile. Charlotte Noland, sportswoman, went to Baltimore and taught physical culture at St. Timothy's.