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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. x, 147 p. : illus., ports.; 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. LCCN 76108642 Type of material Book Personal name Ironside, Roberta Louise. Main title An adventure called Skelly; a history of Skelly Oil Company through fifty years, 1919-1969. Published/Created New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1970] Description x, 147 p. illus., ports. 24 cm. ISBN 0390477559 LC classification HD9569. S63 I7 LC Subjects Skelly Oil Company. Dewey class no. 338.7/62/23328
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Good in Poor dust jacket. 0390477559. Fairly large v-shaped piece torn, missing, from lower right of jacket's front panel, other chipping and tears to jacket.; Illus., jacket now in a clear protector; 147 pages.
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Good in Fair jacket. x, [2], 147, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. DJ has a large tear in front and other wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Some fep soiling. About the birth of Skelly Oil Company which resulted from what was already a twenty-five-year career of intensive and varied oil field experience on the part of W. G. Skelly, who founded and served Skelly Oil Co. as president for over thirty-seven years. This story of the oil company takes us from its founding in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1919, to just before the book was published in 1970. Skelly Oil Company was a medium-sized oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove (Bill) Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. J. Paul Getty acquired control of the company during the 1930s. It became defunct when fully absorbed by Getty Oil Company in 1974, and the disused Skelly brand logo was revived by Nimmons-Joliet Development Corp. in 2012. Bill Skelly (1878-1957) came to Oklahoma from Pennsylvania in about 1913 where he worked as a mule skinner and tool dresser in the oil fields around Ardmore and Duncan, Oklahoma, prior to partnering with Jack Sanky to form Skelly Sanky Oil Company in Duncan, Oklahoma in 1915. An advertisement in The Pittsburgh Press on January 4, 1922, stated that Skelly Oil Company was formed to take over the oil properties of Skelly and of the Skelly Sanky company. Chesley Coleman Herndon was a practicing attorney in Tulsa when he won several court victories against William Skelly involving oil leases on Osage Indian land. Skelly summoned Herndon to his office for a meeting after his final loss in court, and shortly thereafter, the two unlikely allies, along with Fred Pielsticker, the son of German immigrants who was orphaned at age twelve and became a renowned engineer, would form Skelly Oil Company. For the next 37 years, Skelly and Herndon held the number one and two positions in the company, and are buried 25 feet apart in Tulsa's Rose Hill Mausoleum, the same distance as their desks for almost half a century. A 1932 Fortune Magazine article stated that "Skelly Oil Company is a great success because of the different temperaments of its top executives...in this company, William Skelly is the accelerator and Chesley Herndon is the brake." The company entered into the refining business by purchasing the Midland Refining Company in El Dorado, Kansas, in 1922. Throughout much of its history, Skelly was a popular gasoline marketer throughout the Midwestern United States and was a market leader in several cities throughout its marketing area including Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis/Saint Paul and other cities. Skelly's branded products included Skelly Skeltane, Regular, 50-50, Special, Keotane and Powermax gasolines; Skelly Supreme, Tagolene, Skelmark and Ranger motor oils; and Skelgas propane products through Skelgas franchised stores. What may have been unique to Skelly, beginning in the late 1950s it offered its female customers a Ladies charge card in a shade of light blue. Skelly Oil Company grew to become a major oil company known for its exploration and production expertise as well as the capabilities of its refineries and manufacturing facilities in conjunction with its well-established marketing and distribution network. Skelly Oil Company was an early leader in offshore drilling and production ranging from Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf with a foreign presence in Canada, Argentina, Australia, Korea, Libya, Iran, and Mozambique. In addition to its E&P and refining divisions, Skelly Oil Company also had well-established chemical, manufacturing, engineering, and research divisions. It was an early pioneer of LPG products and building upon its base of substantial uranium ore reserves, established a role in conversion and fuel fabrication and in recovery and reprocessing for the fledgling nuclear power industry. Skelly was...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Jacket with a trace of edge-wear, but no tears. 147 pages.
