Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granted to Amiranian Oil Co., a Seaboard subsidiary, the concession is reported to be good for 60 years, must be reduced in 15 years to 100,000 sq. mi. by the elimination of areas without oil. To carry oil out of Afghanistan and Iran, another Seaboard subsidiary called Amiranian Pipe Line...
...build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned as Minister and Mr. Mills returned to private life...
About a year and a half aw this coalition approached Seaboard. formed the exploration companies, gave Seaboard a 51% interest. Mr. Hart then began to palaver in Kabul and Teheran. Biggest stockholder in Seaboard Oil (32%) is Texas Corp. Last week Texaco filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the issuance of 1,557,000 shares of common stock, to be offered to Texas stockholders at about $40 a share on the basis of one new share for each six held. Market price of Texas common last week was $52. Of the estimated $62,000.000 proceeds from...
Texaco already is involved in Eastern markets through deals made last year with Standard Oil of California by which Texaco acquired a half interest in Standard's oil fields on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the Dutch East Indies. Standard got outlet for its oil, Texaco a source of supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal...
...with health foods such as Wheaties, Cocomalt, etc. This is announced with such reproachful sadness by the Crimson that one can only assume that these items are common fare in the Harvard Houses, and that their dieticians would be delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings" of Harvard (an expression aptly coined by the Crimson) will in ten years have progressed to a state where vitamin D alone can help them...