Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalcitrant Julian (cont.). Greatly angered and perturbed were oilmen when Oilman Charles Courtney Julian last fortnight denounced curtailment, said, "It's the bunk" (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week Scoffer Julian showed no signs of penitence but obtained an injunction preventing the State Corporation Commission from taking any action against his oil company for non-curtailment. If Mr. Julian succeeds in proving that proration by law is "unconstitutional and void," the unhappy oil industry may again be in a grave crisis...
...filled with overstuffed mahogany furniture and a corps of stenographers. Who his asso ciates are is not known. He smiles and says they are his stockholders. Sometimes he appears in Tulsa on unnamed business. Often he arrives at his wells dressed in regular oil togs. But never have oilmen regarded Mr. Julian as one of them. They consider him a promoter rather than an operator. And last week they liked him less than ever. Dear to oilmen is curtailment. They dis agree on how to effect it and when, but as a principle it is their credo. No curtailer...
...than half of its 1926 figure, and scarcely more than the production of New York. Montana oil gushes slower and slower, and refining capacity is far ahead of production. By far the greatest amount of Montana oil comes from the Kevin-Sunburst field in Toole County, near Canada. Montana oilmen show a special fondness for selling oil royalties. Probably the most colorful man in this field is one Tip O'Neill, spectacular in early California oil developments...
...control the high pressure explosion waves which pound against cylinder walls and produce the metallic sound, oilmen added to gasoline substances which raise the detonating point. Examples: aniline, tetraethyl lead...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an able legislator, a sincere, "almost fanatically high-minded" Democrat who directs party policies, hence is usually "regular," a politician who did not flinch at making enemies of such influential tycoons as Oilmen Doheny and Sinclair...