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...That through the control of pipe lines connecting the great producing fields of the West with the consuming territory of the Middle West and East, the Standard companies monopolize the transportation of oil, nullify the law declaring pipe lines common carriers, render the possibility of effective competition by independent producers and refiners utterly futile...
...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...
ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...
During his recent illness Attorney General Daugherty gave up smoking and he does love his pipe. " I just wanted to see how much of a man I was," he told reporters. "In three weeks I'm going to be strong enough to spit...
...methods of control as set forth in the report include division of marketing territory between the various Standard Oil Companies on almost the same basis as before the dissolution, ownership of the principal pipe lines, interlocking stock ownership, fixing of prices in the producing fields, excessive and discriminatory freight rates, and ownership of the basic patents for "cracking," the technical name for reducing crude oil to gasoline...