Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Mark Edwin Andrews, a Texas oilman with four years of World War II service as a naval officer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee hauled in a real, live, big-time speculator and put him under its klieg lights. Who was he? None other than Edwin Wendell Pauley, the rich California oilman, the moneybags of the Democratic National Committee, great & good friend of Harry Truman...
...increase was set off by Phillips Petroleum Co. Short of crude, it offered producers 20? a barrel above the current price. Within a few days, scores of other U.S. refineries had been forced to follow Phillips' lead or lose out on their oil. But no oilman thought that the increased price would mean more oil. Four months ago, Big Jersey's President Eugene Holman had talked down a price rise as a production incentive. By holding the line then, Jersey had temporarily forced the entire industry to hold the price line (TIME, June...
...increase would not win any friends for the oil industry. So far this year, crude oil producers' earnings are up 100% over last year. Refinery companies are well up also. With profits at these levels, many an oilman thought that the smart thing for the industry to do was to absorb the crude increase and hold the retail line...
Today, the Oilman Country School occupies a 69-acre campus in suburban Baltimore, teaches 400 students. Only about 50 boys, mostly the sons of Senators and Congressmen, board in. Headmaster Henry H. Callard thinks that the main advantage of a country day school is its kinship with its community: since most of the kids go home to dinner, they never lose touch with the world of grownups, as boys are apt to do at boarding schools. But he has a right to be proud for another reason. After 50 years, the Oilman Country School is still the best secondary school...