Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital of $1,000,000 or so by hundreds, built up half a dozen major U. S. industries including the Aluminum Company of America, Koppers, Gulf Oil Corp. of Pa., McClintic Marshall Corp. (bridges...
...from the rich, by forced conversions of foreign securities into Burgos bonds and by credits ($180,000,000 last January and probably much more today) from Italy and Germany. Also in Burgos, the Delegate of State for Industry & Commerce, Senor Joaquin Bau, is busy encouraging the exportation of wine, oil, cork, minerals (which can be procured in almost pre-Revolutionary quantities) to acquire foreign exchange...
...told he was interested in the business of bringing in Chinese which I was told was very profitable and that a man called Joey Harper . . . had been passing through Los Angeles and while he was there in one of the cheaper houses he had for a neighbor an oil man whom I had to contact . . . and he told the oil man . . . that he ... was smuggling in Chinese, that they had been caught up with ... by a U. S. cutter and had to sink the boat with the Chinese and that he afterward went to Mr. Fleishhacker...
...various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
...conduct a secret investigation of Herbert Fleishhacker's affairs. On the basis of this investigation, Lang and his lawyer, a heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with the sale in 1915-17 of oil lands in Kern County, Calif, which belonged to the Lazards. The suit asked damages of over $1,000,000, has lain dormant ever since...