Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of the Connally ("hot oil...
Still subject to the approval of the Afghan National Assembly, which normally meets in May, Inland s concession was greeted by oilmen from New Jersey to the Dutch East Indies as a provisional triumph for U. S. oil. It would have been less provisional were Afghanistan better recognized as a potential oil source. Until a few years ago neither oil prospectors nor anyone else traveled freely among the rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president...
...oil company. And whether or not Afghanistan suddenly disclosed "probably the greatest untapped oil reserves in the world," as the Associated Press reported from London, Seaboard had agreed to try to build up production in ten years to the considerable flow...
...Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand ard Oil of California in 1931 on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, the Persian Government's cancellation of Anglo-Iran ian's great 500,000 sq. mi. concession in 1932. In making Seaboard's deal with Afghanistan he was assisted...
geologist named Frederick Gardner Clapp who was at one time "oil adviser" to the Persian Government...