Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect but to save, last week, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes made nationwide headlines as Petroleum Administrator with a strong appeal that all exports of petroleum to the combatants in Ethiopia be barred. Mr. Ickes crossed his fingers by reminding reporters that he has "no authority at all" to regulate the export...
...Next to petroleum, citrus is California's biggest industry. In the past half century some $2,000,000,000 worth of citrus fruits have gone to market, a figure larger than total California gold production since 1849. Outlook for the current citrus year in California is rosy, since Florida groves were badly frosted last winter...
...more than 20 years [we] have been engaged in the petroleum business in Ethiopia. . . . Early this year Mr. Francis M. Rickett of London approached us on the possibilities of negotiating on our behalf a petroleum exploration and development agreement with the Kingdom of Ethiopia. After considerable discussion with Mr. Rickett, it seemed probable that he might be able to secure a concession, whereupon the Standard Vacuum Oil Company organized a corporation in Delaware known as the African Exploration & Development Corporation . . . to acquire such concession when granted...
...Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black bag" was a personal loan...
...marked "Insufficient Funds," the penniless wildcatter struck oil. In three or four years North & South Oil Co. made $2,000,000. Promoter Davis mailed checks for $200,000 to each of the two geologists who had left him flat. Later he sold his oil properties to Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $12,000,000, settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder...