Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghai, Hongkong, Calcutta, Swatow, Madras, Bombay, Bankok, Amoy and Fu-chau he has great oil storage tanks. Standard Oil has similar stores...
Worth struggling for has been the field - China with 400,000,000 people, East Indies with 50,000,000, India with 318,000,000. Everywhere Standard Oil was first. In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say. Mei Fooy is the Chinese name for Standard Oil. Shouting Mei Fooy out loudly once saved the life of Lucy Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s sister-in-law, when in 1923 Chinese bandits captured her. It was the only phrase she knew...
...India Sir Henri has used gang tactics for abusing Standard Oil. His English Shell Transport relations have brought him British government aid. Indian duties against Standard oil are higher than against Royal Dutch-Shell oil...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...
...Shell" ships, tankers and auxiliaries, their number is vast, carry Royal Dutch-Shell oil to markets. Opposed to them President Meyer has his own "navy" of 38 ocean going tankers, 5 river steamers, 96 lighters and barges, 68 tugs and launches, and 134 junks...