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Norman Mather Littell for Carl McFarland in the Lands Division. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1921-24) from Indiana, Mr. Littell settled in Seattle, where he worked briefly for NRA but made his record in private practice in the Northwest. Interior Department lawyers used to have orders not to consult the Department of Justice. Now they do and the Lands Division is where they do much of their consulting...
...last June heavy-jowled Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, sick & tired of the red ink on the ledgers of his sprawling Consolidated Oil Corp., fixed his steely blue eyes on the brawling petroleum industry and made a statement for all to hear. Said he: "The price of [finished] products must go up or the price of raw material must go down...
Last week Consolidated Oil made its semiannual report, and by that time Harry Sinclair was hopping mad. For the first half of 1938 Consolidated had turned in a neat net of $4,000,341. But for the first half of 1939, it had a deficit of $872,671. With the report Harry Sinclair made another bitter statement: "I think the industry has served the public extremely well, but it is serving itself very badly...
This week the No. 1 U. S. oil State made a bold answer: Texas shut down 87,600 wells for 15 days, cutting off production of some 1,300,000 barrels daily. Texas' objective: to force up posted prices-no easy job with gasoline stocks at the thumping total of 76,431,000 barrels and crude pouring into the refineries from other fields...
...will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis as there were slips on its slopes. Thus his attempts eo crash Broadway with verse dramas were steady failures because of "resentment against the frequently made assertion that I was 'America's foremost poet...