Word: reeser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout 1936 while other commodities were booming upward the average price of crude oil remained steady around $1.05 per bbl. Late in the year Dan Moran's Continental Oil and Edwin B. Reeser's Barnsdall Oil announced that they would open the play in 1937 with a 17? boost. This they did, but their fellow oilmen stayed out of the game, creating a dual price level in mid-continent territory. Then last week the rest of the industry decided to jack their prices not 17? but 12?, and Messrs. Moran & Reeser had to come down. Uniform posted prices...
...voice in Tide Water was Jean Paul Getty (TIME, Nov. 30), whose interest in the company (more than 25% directly and indirectly) is almost wholly in common stock, whose voting rights will be diluted by the new preferred. ¶ Proud of a 1936 record is President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Oil Co. He discovered more new oil per share of stock (50 bbl.) than any other oilman in the U. S. In partnership with Humble Oil. Barnsdall last summer tapped a big pool in Nueces County, Tex. On the last day of 1936 Barnsdall and Standard Oil of Indiana...
...Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided...
...help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded as a vested right their power to set the price for the whole industry, were muted...
...credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail, the teachers promised to picket business establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials...