Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable of becoming a self-contained economic unit. At the Ministry of Commerce in Paris last week, Premier Daladier, a former Colonial Minister himself, sat down with a handful of Cabinet Ministers and the Governors of all French colonies, protectorates and mandated territories to discuss cocoa, mahogany, wine, tea, petroleum, spices, cotton, wool, etc., arrange tentative quotas among the colonies, set up machinery for an official Colonial Conference in Paris, six months hence, after London...
...Texas Co. And last week, without .explanation, he resigned that job having held it a little over a week. In place of downright Mr. Holmes was elected a kindly old gentleman, Charles Bismark Ames, formerly vice president and counsel of Texas Co., since last autumn president of the American Petroleum Institute at $50,000 a year...
...Landon of Kansas met in Oklahoma City and sent emissaries to Washington to help draft a bill which would make Secretary of the Interior Ickes virtual dictator over their industry with power to bring the East Texas or any other field into line. Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Petroleum Association, turned up in Washington from Oklahoma and declared that "not only every oil State but every element in the oil industry, including factions which have rarely agreed on anything" were willing to hand the President power if only he would agree to restore order...
...above his ancestral trade without removing him from it. Professor Cadman's first connection with oil was while doing research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial 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...
...promptly lubricated raw nerves by offering U. S. tycoons a half interest in Anglo-Persian's share of the War spoils of the old Turkish Petroleum Co. Oil men recognized this as the end of Britain's closed door oil policy in the Near East...