Search Results: Petroleum from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc, 1951. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. was the corporate name for Mobil. "December 2, 1950 marked the beginning of deliveries from the Mediterranean terminal of the Trans-Arabian pipeline (Tapline) which, together with Aramco's pipeline system, transports Aramco crude over 1,000 miles from the Saudi Arabian fields on the Persian Gulf to Sidon. Socony-Vacuum has a 10 percent interest in this 300,000-barrel-per-day line." Soft Cover. 24 pages, illus., 28 cm. Vg/ softcover. Stock#42449/h.

Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 1969. Hard Cover. xii, 335 p. 23.5 cm. Biography of journalist, satirist David Ross Locke who created the satirical caricature Petroleum V. Nasby and came to regret its great success. Stock# 30,068. Vg/ dj good.

NY, A.A. Knopf, 1947 [©1946]. Hard Cover. xi, 313, vii p., 1 l.; 19 cm. Feis was Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the Department of State in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. Contains three sections: Rubber before Pearl Harbor; The [U.S.] government gives attention to the oil of the Middle East; Oil for Italy. Stock#NEU201. Vg / no dj.