Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presents 1) From Norwegian Americans a $4,500 oil painting by Jonas Lie, entitled Herring Cove At Dawn, and presented in Oslo last week by His Excellency the U. S. Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian...
This Monday, while oil-drilling "wildcatters" were digesting the significance of President Hoover's oil conservation policy (see p. 16), Thomas B. Slick, the king of all "wildcatters," credited with being the largest individual oil operator in the world, completed the sale of all his producing lands to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. These properties-cream of the Seminole, Kay, Kansas, and North Texas fields-yield 34,000 barrels a day, and will bring Prairie's gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between...
...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...
...Oil. As it must to all combinations in restraint of trade, divorce came, in 1911, to 33 units of the great Standard Oil trust. Since then, various units have reputedly flirted and dickered, one with another. But there have been no remarriages, strictly forbidden by U. S. Supreme Court decree...
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...