OIL: In Search of a Policy

"Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world's petroleum resources when the war is over, and I will undertake to analyze the durability of the peace that is to come." —Harold L. Ickes.

Honeymoon's End. This statement by the U.S. Oil Boss was still freshly inked in the current issue of the American Magazine when the whole problem of what the U.S. should do about oil came sharply into the foreground. The gist of a special report on the all-important subject, made by Ickes'...

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