Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the country's more potent oilmen met at St. Louis, last week, to see what could be done about the overproduction, from which their industry has long been suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening...
...major honor in chemistry. He was chosen by a jury of twelve good chemists and true; the medal was presented by the Chicago section of the society. Atomic pictures are not his only passport to professional prestige. In various oil-and-water experiments he has earned the gratitude of oilmen. By pouring oil on water and letting the oil layer spread out to the thickness of one molecule he has been able to measure the exact size of the molecule and calculate the force with which it clings to the water...
Last week he tried again, this time remarking, with carefully prepared smirks and innuendos, that members of the Wilson Cabinet had entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny after leaving office; that Senator Walsh had praised Oilman Doheny when the latter gave advice on the legislation that made the Oil Scandal possible...
Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
...Chamber had been debating with approval certain changes and relaxations of the bill recently introduced to curb the activities in France of foreign oilmen (TIME...