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Government wins in suit to annul Elk Hills Leases; New theory of tank fire boil-overs evolved by the standard; The oil company house-organ -- its policies and functions. . . ; Inglewood the new wonder field of the Los Angeles Basin; Comparison of mid-continent and California gasoline plants; Teapot Dome decision. . . ; All signs point to crude and gasoline price cuts in California; Companies make good record in lessening oil pollution; Six grades of road oil . . . heavy crudes are used in highway building. . . In: Petroleum World Vol. X Nos. 6 7 & 9.
192558106Los Angeles CA: Petroleum World Publishing Co. 626 So. Spring St. June-July Sept. 1925. Three vols. 4to. 124; 120; 124 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams illustrated ads some in colour w/ 1 large folding map of Baldwin Hills Oil Field sized 17.5 x 19.5 in. Photo-illustrated colour and black & white softcovers photo cover art of oil derricks and McDonald equipment Hughes Tool Co. ads on back covers some edgewear minor chipping head & foot of spine minor wear to fore-edges still VG set. First editions of these very scarce issues of this noted California oil industry trade magazine filled with articles and advertisements for oil derricks oil drilling equipment addressing oil drill and oil rigger safety issues oil fires and more. Ads for truck companies such as White International Harvester & Herbert Chandler along with oil pumps gasoline service station pumps and more fill the pages. Of additional interest are the several articles directed towards the fallout from the Teapot Dome Scanda the Panamerican Oil Co. Doheny Fall & Sinclair and court decision analyses. The large folding map of the Baldwin Hills Oil Field by Walker Clute and Samuel Perry is quite scarce not only offering a plat map of oil leases and lease holders in the record breaking oil field but coupled with an article touting the Inglewood Oil Field. At the time Southern California was producing one-quarter of the World’s oil supply. Petroleum World Publishing Co., 626 So. Spring St., paperback
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