Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell Oil.
Last week, there came to Castle Achmacarry one Walter Clark Teagle, president of the greatest of U. S. oil companies, Standard Oil of New Jersey. He carried a gun. But his friends were not alarmed. They recalled that Oilman Teagle and Oilman Deterding, mighty rivals, were yet friends. They...
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