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Word: colorado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some such plan for the limitation of oil production in western States was expected to be worked out at the meeting of Governors, U. S. officials and leaders of the oil industry called for June 10 at Colorado Springs by President Hoover. The object is to contrive an agreement which will be in restraint of overproduction but not in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Eleven Governors were called by President Hoover. Seven accepted promptly. Though the oil production of Colorado is comparatively trivial (only about 7,500 barrels per day), that State's Democratic Gov. William H. Adams (centre figure, front cover) was an understanding host to the other executives and oilmen arriving at his State's famed resort. Gov. Adams, now 67, has grown grey and wrinkled in the service of Colorado. For 38 years he was a State Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...production. His most recent order is calculated to clip some 200,000 barrels per day from California's oil flow, bring production down to around 600,000 barrels per day or less. The California method of production limitation may well prove a starting point for the discussion at Colorado Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Nine telegrams over the Hoover signature went forth from the White House last week to nine state governors, asking them to meet in Colorado Springs on June 10 to frame an interstate compact limiting oil production. The nine oil states: Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Kansas and New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Uncle Charles A. Eaton represents New Jersey:Cousin William R. Eaton, lover of card-tricks, represents Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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