Word: meyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Both Meyer and Deterding are in their middle sixties. Meyer's ancestors were Germans. Deterding's father was a Dutch sea captain...
Elected. Charles F. Meyer, 64, of Katonah, N. Y.; to be president of the Standard Oil Co. of New York...
Directors of the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., by electing Charles F. Meyer (one of their number) president last week,* emphasized a unique commercial parallelism...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...
...Standard Oil sent Meyer to manage their Bombay office...