Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Titusville, Pa., celebrating the 75th anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...
...proved his love for the New Deal last year by quitting as vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey to back a more vigorous oil code than President Walter Teagle favored. For that he was rewarded with a job on the Planning & Coordinating Board of the Petroleum Industry, later got another job with Standard Oil of Cali fornia. This July President Roosevelt sat him down to organize the housing drive...
...Henri had left the famed semicircular desk in St. Helen's Court, London, from which he rules the world's biggest producer of crude petroleum, to see with his own sharp eyes what the U. S. had done about oil. Said he darkly: "It is nothing short of amazing that you have regulatory laws to meet a situation and yet do nothing about it. As we are well aware some people do not like law and order but we must nevertheless have it. What a wicked waste it is to tap resources today that will be sorely needed and that...
...last week, none too certain of his legal rights, the best Mr. Ickes could do was to start a test case against Eason Oil Co. of Enid. Okla. He charged the Oklahomans with having drilled three wells in Crescent Pool in direct contradiction to the plan approved by his Petroleum Administration...
...years ago Dr. Brown partly exposed the remains of two sauropods, was halted by lack of funds. This year Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs...