Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, which would have kept foreign oil interests out of the rich Oklahoma fields, is not to be accepted without a fight. The Roxana Petroleum Company (of the Royal Dutch-Shell group), which, according to Mr. Fall's ruling, could not take over the oil lands of the Creek Indians, are to have their case reviewed by Hubert Work, the present Secretary...
...half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich the vocabulary in this way the possibilities are limitless. See how a little diligence can improve the usual novel opening...
...Oxford's victories on Saturday, both in track and crew; and the Sunday sporting pages rang with the "glad news" of American supremacy, while editorials sounded serious warnings of "this dangerous American Imperialism". The cause of all this turmoil was the presence of two Americans in the Oxford shell and five who were point-scorers on the Oxford track team which distinctly added a red and white touch to the customary "blues" of the supposedly English athletic classics. But with the events over the whole subject should join the rest of the rotting bones of old sensations in a well...
...land lease assignments to the Roxana Petroleum Corporation. This ostensibly American company, all of whose stock is owned by a Delaware corporation, is in reality under foreign control, since a majority of the voting stock of the holding company is, in turn, owned by the Royal Dutch-Shell combine. The Roxana Company is shut out of lease-holds by the leasing law of 1920, which provides that " citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holdings, or stock control...
Pointing to the menace of foreign penetration into United States oil fields, the Federal Trade Commission cites the Royal Dutch-Shell group as having acquired ownership of 11% of the world's production and 3.5% of specifically American production. The American companies named as being under foreign domination include the Union Oil Company (Delaware), the Union Oil Company (California), and the Shell Company (California). These together control over 240,950 acres of oil lands in the United States, including extensive properties in refineries, pipe lines, tank cars, and marketing equipment...