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  Harry Ford Sinclair
Harry Ford Sinclair, described in 1907 as the richest man in Kansas, was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1876.
A Sinclair subsidiary was awarded a federal contract to develop a naval petroleum reserve in Wyoming.
Sinclair was acquitted of criminal conspiracy to defraud, but not after he was convicted of obstructing justice because he had hired private detectives to shadow the jurors.
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 Sinclair Oil Corporation : About Sinclair
Sinclair operates three of the most up-to-date refineries in western America, supplying customers the highest quality Sinclair gasolines, diesel fuel, and jet fuel.
The Sinclair Refinery near Rawlins, Wyoming, is one of the West's longest-running industrial plants, yet Sinclair has made it one of the most modern refineries in the Rockies, producing 60,000 barrels of petroleum products per day.
Sinclair is on the move with an expansion program that's converting existing stations of other brands to Sinclair, and building new Sinclair stations in areas of expanding populations.
www.sinclairoil.com /about_sinclair.htm   (650 words)

  
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Sinclair commits to: * Ensure every employee understands that they are expected to perform work in a safe and prudent manner, and will be accountable for their personal actions and safe behavior.
Sinclair retains incident investigation reports on file in the PSM Coordinator's office for at least five (5) years so that the reports can be reviewed during future PHA's and PHA revalidation.
Sinclair Oil Corporation has chosen to conduct compliance audits at least every 3 years using a knowledgeable team formed of corporate personnel, staff from other Sinclair refineries, and contractors as required.
www.rtk.net /rmp/sum7/WY/fac100000116867   (3649 words)

  
 Upton Sinclair
Sinclair was now a well-known national figure and decided to accept the offer of the Socialist Party to become its candidate for Congress in New Jersey.
Sinclair now took up their case and when Eugene Debs, was imprisoned Sinclair wrote to Woodrow Wilson arguing that it was "futile to try and win democracy abroad, while we are losing it at home."
Sinclair rejoined the Socialist Party and in 1926 was its candidate to become governor of California.
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 Upton Sinclair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sinclair faced what he would later call "the most difficult ethical problem of my life," when he was told in confidence by Sacco and Vanzetti's former attorney Fred Moore that they were guilty and how their alibis were supposedly arranged[1].
Sinclair's platform for the California gubernatorial race of 1934, known as EPIC (End Poverty in California), galvanized the support of the Democratic Party, and Sinclair gained its nomination.
Sinclair is well-known for his principle: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." which has been quoted in many political books, essays, articles, and other forms of media, including Al Gore's 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth.
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 Sinclair Oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sinclair Oil is an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916 by combining the assets of eleven small petroleum companies.
Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil was reincorporated in Utah in 1976.
Sinclair Oil has a long history of being a fixture on American roads (and briefly in other countries) with its dinosaur logo and mascot, an apatosaurus (brontosaurus).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinclair_Oil   (587 words)

  
 Sinclair Oil Corporation Internet Privacy Policy
Personal information requested by Sinclair is limited to your first and last name, email address, and postal code, but may include other information when needed to fulfill a service or request you want us to fulfill.
Sinclair is concerned about protecting the safety of the children who use our site.
Sinclair has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.
www.grandamerica.com /privacy.html   (3953 words)

  
 NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: Sinclair Oil
Founded in 1916, Sinclair Oil Corporation (Sinclair) is one of the largest oil companies in the United States.
Sinclair executives were concerned that thousands of visitors to the games wouldn't know that they could still ski the resort's 40 runs that weren't being used for competition.
Sinclair has also developed an events registration system for its hotel and resort business that allows concierge or spa managers to book guest activities such as massages, golf, horseback riding or restaurant reservations.
www.novell.com /success/sinclair.html   (891 words)

  
 Sinclair Oil Corporation : Home
Sinclair quickly grew to become the seventh largest oil company in the United States.
The original Sinclair Oil Company began marketing the apatosaurus (brontosaurus) in 1930 and now after more than 70 years, "Dino" still remains one of the most recognizable corporate logos in the world.
Sinclair is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is the nucleus of a corporation that includes Snowbasin Resort in Ogden, Utah (site of the 2002 Downhill Courses), as well as Sun Valley Resort in Idaho.
www.sinclairoil.com   (263 words)

  
 Presidential Appointment of Special Counsel
The naval oil reserves were three oil-rich tracts of land set aside by the Taft Administration to provide naval ships with fuel in case of a national emergency.
Teapot Dome would be leased in its entirety, Sinclair would build a pipe line with adequate capacity from the Teapot Dome oil fields, and the proceeds from the Navy's share of oil from the reserve were to be used by Sinclair to build storage tanks on the Atlantic coast and fill them with fuel oil.
They rationalized in a letter to the Senate that the lease had been executed in the public interest because crude oil in the reserves was unsuitable as fuel for naval ships so it was necessary to exchange it for fuel oil and provide for the construction of storage tanks to minimize evaporation.
www.brook.edu /gs/ic/teapotdome/teapotdome.htm   (10889 words)

  
 Sinclair Aircraft-Signpast Reproductions Vintage Signs
Sinclair Aircraft - In 1896, twenty-year old Harry Sinclair of Independence, Kansas, lost the family drugstore in a speculation just as an oil boom was beginning in the area and turned to selling lumber for oil derricks.
Thus, at age thirty-nine, he established the Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation, one of the ten largest American oil companies.
The sign is reproduced under a license granted by Sinclair Oil Corporation.
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 Oil
Knowing that vast amounts of oil would be required to enable demobilization and the return of military equipment and personnel to the U.S., Truman was forced to intervene between oil workers and management to avoid a crippling shutdown of the industry.
Oil, gas and chemical workers had worked longer and harder than usual during the war to meet production demands and now wanted to return to a 40-hour work week.
Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico.
www.kipnotes.com /Oil.htm   (6853 words)

  
 Some Oil Co. Info
The Anti-Trust Division required them to divest Sinclair marketing operations in a number of areas as a condition for approval of the merger, and these were acquired by some group.
The present Sinclair is no relations to the earlier Sinclair except that its genesis was in the Sinclair stations Arco was required to divest and the trade marks that went with the Sinclair name.
When traveling, his out of state license platesallowed him to use any of two or three oil credit cards at any station under those names but in his home town he was only allowed to use the card specific to the station he was at.
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 Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair was initially a pharmacist but in 1901 he became involved in the oil industry.
After the Russian Revolution in 1917 Sinclair went to Russia and met Lenin and attempted to negotiate the oil rights in Siberia.
In 1921 Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior, had leased Sinclair the Teapot Dome oil fields in Wyoming.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAsinclairHF.htm   (865 words)

  
 Sinclair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 OSCN Found Document:THELMA OIL & GAS CO. v. SINCLAIR GULF OIL CO.
It is admitted that the Crystal Oil Company commenced an action in the district court of Carter county against the plaintiff on or about January 3, 1917, and that said action was finally terminated in favor of the plaintiff.
It is contended there was evidence in the case that the suit of the Crystal Oil Company versus Thelma Oil and Gas Company was instituted without probable cause, and the court should therefore have permitted the jury to pass on the credibility of the evidence.
That he had no agreement or understanding with the Crystal Oil Company or with any one representing the Crystal Oil Company prior to the filing of that suit in the district court of Oklahoma county, that the suit should be filed.
www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=41319   (1549 words)

  
 Salt Creek Photos
Sinclair was originally going to be a pharmacist, but in 1901 went into the oil business.
The trial of Sinclair and Fall ended in a mistrial when it was revealed that Sinclair had employed a private detective agency to tail the jurors.
Sinclair was charged with contempt of court and was sentenced to six months.
www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /saltcreek.html   (1297 words)

  
 Harry F. Sinclair of Sinclair Oil
Sinclair started out to become a pharmacist and entered the drug business with his father.
He combined these enterprises into the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation (later Atlantic Richfield) and in 1919 became its president.
When Harry Sinclair returned to New York with his retinue of 80 odd he found that he was the key participant in the Teapot Oil Dome scandal of 1923.
sinclair.quarterman.org /who/harry_of_oil.html   (233 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | S.L.'s Sinclair Oil offering biodiesel in Las Vegas
Sinclair Oil Corp. announced Wednesday that it's the first to offer biodiesel fuel to retail customers in the Las Vegas area.
Sinclair estimates it will replace 250,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually in Las Vegas with biodiesel by selling the blend.
Haycock Petroleum takes pure biodiesel fuel made from soybean oil, which is supplied by Biodiesel of Las Vegas, and mixes it with petroleum-based diesel to create a 5 percent blend.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640189212,00.html   (483 words)

  
 Sinclair ZX80 computer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
British company Sinclair released their ZX80 computer in 1980 for $199.95.
It is considered to be the world's first computer for under $200, at least that's what Sinclair Research Ltd stated in all of their ads.
Sinclair sold 70,000 ZX80s before they came out with the improved ZX-81 one year later.
oldcomputers.net /zx80.html   (308 words)

  
 Harry F. Sinclair | 20th Century American Leaders Database
After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil.
Once the larger venture was created, Sinclair invested heavily in pipelines throughout the mid-west, building almost 900 miles of line in just two years.
By 1929, Sinclair Oil refineries had a production capacity of 80,000 barrels a day, 12,000 acres of coal land, and many other holdings that made it a profitable oil conglomerate.
www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/828   (83 words)

  
 Sinclair Oil Company Stock Certificate
The largest part of Salt Lake City businessman Robert Earl Holdings empire, Sinclair Oil was founded in 1916 by oilman Harry Sinclair.
Formed from the assets of eleven small petroleum companies, Sinclair is one of the oldest continuous names in the oil business.
Sinclair produces gasoline locally (also refining it and transporting it) and sells it in the Rocky Mountain states, supplying its gas stations more cheaply than most other companies can.
www.scripophily.net /sinclairoil.html   (677 words)

  
 Sinclair HC Gasoline-Signpast Reproductions Vintage Signs
H-C Gasoline was one of Sinclair's earliest products and was common throughout Midwestern states in the 1920s.
In 1896, twenty-year old Harry Sinclair of Independence, Kansas, lost the family drugstore in a speculation just as an oil boom was beginning in the area and turned to selling lumber for oil derricks.
In 1926 Sinclair Oil introduced its new high octane gasoline, "Houston Concentrate": H-C. "Sinclair" is a registered trademark and servicemark of Sinclair Oil Corporation.
www.premierhummer.com /sinclair-gas.html   (250 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Sinclair Oil verifies SulphCo.'s desulphurisation technology
28-03-01 Sinclair Oil, the second-largest independent refiner in the US, announced it has fully verified that FilmWorld's wholly owned subsidiary, SulphCo., desulphurisation technology is capable of producing low-sulphur diesel fuel and gasoline that meets future federal standards for low-sulphur motor fuels.
The announcement concludes the last round of due diligence performed by Sinclair Oil in evaluating the effectiveness of the SulphCo.
process by Sinclair Oil, we are now poised to begin the commercial phase of the technology," said Dr. Mark Cullen, CEO of SulphCo.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnn11721.htm   (401 words)

  
 TIME.com: A Raise for Harry? -- May 29, 1944 -- Page 1
In the first three months of this year, Sinclair Oil Corp. earnings before taxes were double those of the same period last year.
In twelve years, he parlayed this into the $4,739,370 Sinclair Oil and Refining Co., was on his way to becoming one of the U.S.'s biggest oil tycoons when the storm broke.
Sinclair magnanimously called the new corporation Consolidated Oil, leaving his name out of the title.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,850933,00.html   (732 words)

  
 Upton Sinclair made his mark as a muckraker. His vision for California now takes the spotlight.
Yet few Californians are aware that he ran for governor in 1934 on the Democratic ticket and nearly won in an exuberant Depression-era campaign that vowed to end poverty in the state.
Coodley, whose grandparents settled in Los Angeles about the same time Sinclair did, became interested in the writer in the mid-'90s, after her own students were deeply impressed by a documentary she showed them of Sinclair's EPIC, or End Poverty in California, campaign.
Sinclair was arrested there while reading from the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/12/DDGB9AOANQ1.DTL   (1105 words)

  
 Granta: Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights out for the Territory'; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); and Radon Daughters, all available from Granta Books.
This is Sinclair at his funniest, most sympathetic and engaged.
Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of the river life that was.
www.granta.com /authors/30   (371 words)

  
 Sinclair Oil to Offer Excess Real Estate at Auction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lakeland, FL (PRWEB) September 13, 2006 -- Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced today that their firm has been retained by Sinclair Oil to offer at auction 13 fuel service stations/investment properties throughout Montana and Idaho.
Owen stated that he and Randy Waters of NAI worked in concert with Sinclair Oil real estate managers to explain the advantages of marketing at auction and to finalize the sales inventory.
"The Sinclair representatives were convinced early on as to the efficiency of the auction process and chose our team due to Higgenbotham’s stellar sales history and NAI’s worldwide network of commercial real estate professionals," stated Owen.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb435987.htm   (608 words)

  
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Sinclair Oil Sold 360 Acres in Tucson, AZ for $53M
In two separate transactions, Sinclair Oil Corp. of Salt Lake City, UT sold 360 acres near Tucson International Airport for $53 million.
In the first transaction, KB Home and Lennar/US Homes of Tucson acquired 246 acres for $30 million, or $121,950 per acre, with plans to re-zone and develop it into 600-700 single family residences, with a portion of this land to be traded to the University of Arizona for development of its biotech research complex.
www.costar.com /News/Article.aspx?id=F2A759316FACA04F1B8D82FC33D34DBB   (183 words)

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