Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
Judge Cosgrave presently ruled upon the whole question of the suit: Had Herbert Fleishhacker damaged certain Lazard Freres heirs by selling certain oil lands belonging to them in Kern County, Calif, in 1915-17 for too cheap a price? Deciding that the answer was Yes, Judge Cosgrave ordered Herbert Fleishhacker to pay damages of $300,000. He then sent compliments to Lawyer Neylan for his handling of the case. Comparing himself to Emile Zola defending Dreyfus, Lawyer Neylan stormed back: "I am serving notice now on all those behind the present litigation against Mr. Fleishhacker that I am going...
...wage increase through and we'll leave," was the gist of the response last August when a committee backed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas ordered 17 U. S. and other foreign oil companies to pay a wage increase of some...
...proposed increase was the Mexican Government's way of settling a strike by 18,000 Mexican oil workers which seriously threatened Mexico's depleted Treasury, greatly dependent upon taxes paid by foreign oil interests. Oilmen, already spouting over vigorous President Cardenas' expropriation of 850,000 acres of undeveloped oil lands leased by foreigners, objected vigorously and the wage problem was referred to a Mexican board of arbitration and conciliation. Even friendly U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels protested...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...