Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Morrow's important gain has been to secure apparent justice for those U. S. citizens who held bonafide Mexican oil lands...
...Manhattan, last week, oil men awaited the Spanish text of the Calles regulations and prepared to take the advice of highest paid counsel before settling back in the comforting assurance that all is substantially well with oil in Mexico...
Soon Dutch newshawks gave the tragedy world interest by rushing off to scribble that Mevrouw Van Eeghen is the niece of mighty Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of the internationally potent Royal Dutch Shell (Oil) Group. Shrewder newshawks stressed Mevrouw Van Eeghen's unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat...
Commenting further, Mr. Airey denied that the British Government owns any share in Royal Dutch, but stated his belief that it owns 56% of the common stock of the rival Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
When large purchases of the common stock of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. were made in Manhattan, last week, by an undetected buyer this person was rumored to be Motor Man Ford. Before the Majestic sailed, however, Mr. Ford declared unequivocally, "I do not plan to purchase any new industries or purchase any more motor car companies in the near future. My hands are pretty full...