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Sinclair Refining Marine Department; Sinclair Refining Company legal cases and labor disputes; Consolidated Oil Corporation and Anglo-Iranian Oil Company agreement; Union Petroleum Company legal cases; Consolidated Pipe Line Company dissolution; oversize map of US; Sinclair Refining Company sales to Consolidated Oil Corporation, 1920 - 1949

 File — Box: 94
Identifier: /repositories/2/archival_objects/340497

Scope and Contents

Sinclair Refining Marine Department - patents for electrolysis eliminators & corresisters for preventing corrosion of tankers (1939); Sinclair Refining Company - drawbacks of customs duties on imports of oil at Baltimore, MD (1941) & Houston, TX (1940-1943), self-insurance laws for various states (Minnesota, 1945), complaint filed by US customs alleging violation of anti-dumping act of 1921 arising from importation of Mexican crude oil at Marcus Hock, PA (1940-1941); Sinclair Petroleum Company, S. A. (A Belgian Corporation) - agreement between Consolidated Oil Corporation and Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited covering sale by former to the latter of all outstanding stock in the above named corporation (1937-1947); Sinclair Refining Company Marine Department - status of tankers under interstate commerce commission as common-contract or private carriers (1947); Union Petroleum Company of Pennsylvania - corporate file (1925-1942); Sinclair Refining Company - transfer of assets and properties of Wellsville Refining Copmany to above named corporation (1924-1925), agreement between Sinclair Refining Company and Julius and Sloan Cohen (Standard Wrecking and Salvage Company) covering demolition of the Wax Plant Building at Sinclair's Wellsville, New York refinery (1938-1939); Consolidated Pipe Line Company (a Delaware Corporation) - proposed liquidation and transfer of assets to Sinclair Refining Company (dissolution) (1945-1948); Sinclair Refining Company Marine Department - penalty proposed by US department of justice (immigration and naturalization service) for failure of B. F. Svendson, Master of the S/S "Sheldon Clark," to detain Joao Martin when the vessel siled from New York, NY on June 15, 1943 (1943-1948), complaint of US against S/S "L. V. Stanford" for alleged pollution of the Delaware River at Marcus Hook, PA, on January 5, 1948 (1948), diversion of vessels from Foreign Trade after clearing through customs (1948-1949); Sinclair Refining Company - agreements with Sun Pipe Line Company and Yount-Lee Pipe Line Company covering leasing of crude oil tanks and land at Smith's Bluff, Jefferson County, Texas (1943), agreement covering sale of 750,000 barrels of light southwest Texas crude oil to the Atlantic Refining Company and purchase of equal quantity of Oficina-type (Venezuela) crude oil (1948); Sinclair Refining Company (Pipe Line Department) - payment of gathering and transportation charges through inter-company billing including acquisition of pipe line systems from Continental Pipe Line Company (1942); Gounares Bros. & Co. vs Sinclair Refining Company - damages from collision between S/S "Flagship Sinco" and S/S "Ourania Gounares" in Houston ship channel on April 30, 1947 (1947-1949); John A. Ingino vs Sinclair Refining Company - recovery of damages for Sinclair breaking the Service Letter Statute of Missouri (1948-1949); Sinclair Refining Company - correspondence on taxes, stocks, and other business (1920-1924), miscellaneous suits brought by or against (James C. Davis vs. Sinclair Refining Company (1923), Sinclair Refining Company et al vs Alonzo Smith et al (1925, Houston), Sinclair Refining Copmany vs Triangle Garage (1922), Robert W. Sanders vs Eastern Potash Co. (1921), Sinclair Refining Company vs Roman Garage Company (1921), Susan A. Barnett vs Sinclair Refining Company (1921), Julius Rosenzweig vs Sinclair Refining Company (1920), Wm. L. Severance vs Sinclair Refining Company (1920), Sinclair Refining Company vs W. J. Newman (Sewell case)(1922), Max Blash vs Sinclair Refining Company and John A. Eggenberger (1923), Sinclair Refining Company vs Italian Star Line (1920-1921), oversize map of US, Dunnie vs Metropolitan Life Insurance Company et al (1932), Union Petroleum Co. vs S.S. Phoebus (1929), S.S. Baldhill vs Atlantic Refining Company (1928), La Porte Independent Oil Company vs Sinclair Refining Company (1927), Sinclair Refining et al vs Ahnapee and Western Railway Company et al (Interstate Commerce Commission) (1925)), correspondence including agreements, bills of sales, taxes, laws, etc. (~1920-1930), Engle, H. E. - Sinclair denial of disability to previous employee at Argentine, Kansas refinery (1935), Chicago Strike (unions, labor, 1941), Sinclair Refining Company sale of Sinclair Petroleum Company Brussels, Sinclair Petroleum Company London, and Sinclair Refining Company of Canada to Consolidated Oil Corporation (1935)

Dates

  • Creation: 1920 - 1949

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center and requires 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Extent

From the Series: 52 Linear Feet (Boxes 70-122)

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586