Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declare that it is the role of the State to ensure the adequate exploitation of the great sources of energy-coal, electricity, oil-as well as of the chief means of transport by rail, sea and air. ... It is the State which must dispose of credit. . . ." (Applause from the Left...
...award was the forerunner of the Corcoran's 19th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens next fortnight with a show of 219 invited works. The Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
...Wherewithal. Theodore Newton Law has plenty of cash to back up his plans, largely from an oil fortune left him by his great-grandfather, T. N. Barnsdall, who built the first oil refinery in the U.S., and his father, the late Robert Law, president of the $23,000,000 Barnsdall Oil...
Young Ted, who went to work for Barnsdall after graduating from St. Paul's School, set out in 1935 with his own wildcatting and drilling company, Falcon Seaboard Drilling Co. Later, he organized Aero Exploration Co. to map oil lands as one of his jobs, traced the route of Big Inch from Texas to New Jersey. But Aero, which made aircraft surveys, gave him a hankering for the aviation business...
Alfred Mossman London, 1936 GOPresidential nominee, finally got around to the practice of law-37 years after being admitted to the bar (he never hung out a shingle, made his fortune as an independent oil operator). Combining long business experience with his oldtime lawbook learning, he appeared before Kansas' Corporation Commission, examined a witness in an oil case...