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| | Teapot Dome - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Teapot Dome in U.S. history, oil reserve scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. |
 | | In 1921, by executive order of the President, control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and at Elk Hills, Calif., was transferred from the Navy Dept. to the Dept. of the Interior. |
 | | In 1922, Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to Harry F. Sinclair, an oil operator, and the field at Elk Hills, Calif., to Edward L. Doheny. |
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