Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign oil under a "voluntary" 10% reduction program (TIME, Sept. 30). Having already rejected appeals by three companies (Tidewater, Indiana Standard Oil, Ohio Standard) for sizable boosts in their import quotas. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr., administrator of the program, also turned down Eastern States Petroleum Co. and Sinclair Oil Co., even though Sinclair argues that it will mean costly cutbacks in its ambitious plans to sell Venezuelan crude...
Even an established importer, Sinclair Oil Corp., asked for relief, demanded a quota boost from 62,200 bbl. daily to 74,800. At a hearing before Captain Carson, Sinclair President J. E. Dyer challenged the program's premise that cheap foreign oil is endangering the nation's security by cutting down oil exploration. Despite accelerated exploration in recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period...
...None. If Sinclair and the other complainants refuse to go along with the cuts, they will wreck the plan. To date, the six other companies that had been importing heavily for years and whose base-period levels are high have agreed to abide by their quotas. The six (Atlantic, Gulf, Socony, Standard of California, Jersey Standard, Texas), which imported 573,800 bbl. a day in July, plan to cut to 471,000 bbl. by December, 22,000 below the Government's request. But last week they showed signs of weakening, nervously eyed the appeals for quota boosts. Gulf Executive...
...hell are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, anyway? Merely Nobel Prizewinners who have written sentimental slop . . . And Steinbeck-pooh ! A lowly proletarian who drips grief over his characters. Then there's James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his own many-faceted snooty character. Sex. "What's a woman for?" "The thing you have to know is yourself; you are people." And so, his stable of characters, I suspect, is a hash-up of his own personality...
...books. The truth is, we don't deserve it." Cozzens regards most of his fellow writers as softies. Says he: "The Old Man and the Sea could have run in Little Folks magazine. Under the rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldn...