Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While President Roosevelt and most U. S. oilmen were breasting the flood...
...results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
When President Roosevelt was inaugurated the country's oilmen hastened at his call to assemble in Washington, make a report to him favoring strict proration. They expected to receive commands from the new chief. Instead the President sent telegrams to the Governors of oil States saying it was up to them to act. Result: anticlimax, nothing done. Last week with the oil industry worse off than in March, oilmen again looked to Washington. With chaos, caused by Texas, looming, Governors Murray of Oklahoma and Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft...
...office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development of a counter terror to poison gas. The War too gave him his knighthood and his first personal contact with U. S. oilmen...
...John first won the title of Petrol Diplomat as government oil adviser in the famed San Remo conference which divided between Britain and France the output from the rich Mesopotamian oil fields, earned the anger of U. S. oilmen by shutting U. S. companies...