Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
Last week Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey* quietly announced that their gross business last year amounted to $1,122,682,610. The amount stirred less interest than the fact that this one of the Standard Oil group does the second largest business in the world, ranking next to the U. S. Steel Corp. ($1,406,505,195) and ahead of General Motors Corp...
John Teagle, his father and a successful oil man of Cleveland, stopped that notion, told his boy to go to work. Young Teagle did -for his father- and learned every department of the oil business. He has an infinite capacity for absorbing detail; so there was no wonder when he became vice president of the Republic Oil Co. at its organization in 1900. He went into the foreign field, became the great expert on oil export that he is. This eventually gained him the presidency of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
...fact, when his company has to do any intricate foreign dickering over oil, he almost invariably goes himself. Recently he was in Europe, returning in ample time for his 48th birthday on May 1 and for last week's meeting of his stockholders. He brought back with him positive arrangements for U. S. oil companies to partake with British, French and Dutch concerns in the exploitation of the Mesopotamian oil regions...