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...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...
...attempt to regulate by executive order the lawful use of complainants' property. . . ." The decision was the signal for a general slashing of crude prices throughout the Mid-Continent area last week. Texas Co., which led the way, downed its posted price from $1.10 to 75? a barrel. Oilmen had seen the cut coming for some time, for injunctions against proration agreements were piling up and gasoline stocks had become unwieldy. An abortive effort was made last October to boost the price of crude, but two Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels...
Lawyer Hogan, the dapper "million-dollar fee" man who defended Oilmen Doheny and Fall against the U. S. in the gay 1920's. got off a lively attack on the abuse of citizens' rights by Federal enforcement officers. Excerpt...
Suddenly, without warning, old Sun Oil Co. announced it would pay from 10? to 12? a bbl. more for Texas crude. Oilmen watched tensely, recalling that last April Continental Oil made a similar upping of 15? when conditions did not seem to warrant it and that every other major company followed. Soon after Sun's announcement a number of independents upped prices. They included Barnsdall...