Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Standard's great rival in the international oil markets is the Royal Dutch-Shell group, which Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding heads...
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...
...Meyer went to Manhattan to be a member of Standard Oil's foreign trade committee in 1907, to be vice president and director in 1920. But already, at the beginning of this century, Sir Henri had moved to his Royal Dutch headquarters in The Hague, and from there he directed the fight for customers...