Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
...These are harsh words, Sir Henri," said, last week, the U. S. petroleum industry...
...Tsar, inasmuch as Great Man's influence, presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...
...last week, pausing in Manhattan en route to Chicago, Sir Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...
...Sir Henri Deterding is, as everyone knows, head of the Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum interests, largest crude oil producing company in the world. Old in the oil business, veteran of many oil wars, Sir Henri at one time battled, not unsuccessfully, with Standard of New Jersey in its pre-dissolution period. In more recent years he has (despite his non-compromise statement) preferred peace to war, as witness his agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval...