Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell Oil...
Last week, there came to Castle Achmacarry one Walter Clark Teagle, president of the greatest of U. S. oil companies, Standard Oil of New Jersey. He carried a gun. But his friends were not alarmed. They recalled that Oilman Teagle and Oilman Deterding, mighty rivals, were yet friends. They remembered that Oilman Teagle had tried to be peacemaker in the recent Indian oil war between Royal Dutch and Standard Oil of New York. They guessed the two chiefs would discuss ways and means of persuading Soviet Russia to compensate U. S., British and Dutch companies for confiscated oil wells...
Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...
Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...
Motor Gasoline. Dr. Gustave Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products Co. of Chicago, declared that motorists could save 3,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline and this year $400,000,000 if motor vehicle makers made their motors for higher compression...