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BRYAN, BARNABAS, JR., Petroleum Control in the United States
(New York, American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1933).
36 pp.
Methods of controlling production of oil are investigated in this work. The
author pays special attention to prorationing, the unit plan, the Yates plan, and
the Kettleman Hills plan.
CARL, ELLA LANE, Letters of a Texas Oil Driller's Wife (New York,
Comet Press, 1959). 222 PP.
These letters were written between 1927 and 1931. They deal with life in the
West Texas oil towns of Borger and Pampa, but contain negligible information
about the petroleum industry.
CLARK, JAMES A., Three Stars for the Colonel (New York, Random
House, 1954). 265 PP-
Clark, a Houston public relations executive, has written an uncritical account
of the public career of Ernest O. Thompson, the highly influential chairman of the
Texas Railroad Commission. The Commission is the regulatory body for oil pro-
duction in the state.
CLARK, JAMES A., and MICHEL T. HALBOUTY, Spindletop (New
York, Random House, 1952). 3o6 pp.
Here is an exciting, dramatized history of Texas' first big oil strike. The authors
use fictitious dialogue to capture the vigor of the oil boom. All the big names of
oil production in Texas are sprinkled through the pages of this book. The authors
trace the development of four major companies from this field-Gulf, Texaco,
Magnolia, and Humble. The book contains no attempt at economic analysis, except
to state "the Standard Oil Company monopoly never hurt the general public." This
glorification of oil pioneers makes most interesting reading.
COOK, Roy C., Control of the Petroleum Industry by Major Oil
Companies, Monograph No. 39, Temporary National Economic Com-
mittee (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1941). 1o1 pp.
Cook's economic study in the monopoly conditions existing in the oil industry
has much the same tenor as Kemnitzer's earlier Rebirth of Monopoly. Control by
the majors in the fields of production, transportation, refining, and retailing has
tended to squeeze out the independents. Cook's solution to the problem is govern-
mental control of the industry as a public utility.
COTNER, ROBERT C., James Stephen Hogg: A Biography (Austin,
University of Texas Press, 1959). 617 pp.
As a comprehensive biography of the popular Texas governor, this volume treats
Hogg's involvements in the petroleum business. He was a central figure in the
speculation at Spindletop, and much of his fortune resulted therefrom. The author
is a history professor at the University of Texas.
DEGOLYER, E., and HAROLD VANCE (comps.), Bibliography on the
Petroleum Industry (College Station, Texas, Bulletin No. 83 of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1944). 730 pp.
At the time of its publication, this was the most exhaustive bibliography on the
technical aspects of the subject. As yet, it has not been superseded. The volume269
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