Excerpt from The Story of Oil
Recent years have been marked by prolific crops of "studies in oil," but dealing mainly with some special phase of the oil business, frequently with disputed points of an ethical or a legal nature. Few, indeed, are the volumes giving in convenient form an account from which the reader may survey the entire industry and judge its importance for himself. It is hoped, therefore, that this "story of oil," told in nontechnical terms, may serve a double purpose: first, to portray, without prejudice or passion, the enormous developments in the petroleum industry during the last fifty years; and second, to point out the important part which petroleum and its products play in everyday life. Few industries, even in this age of huge enterprises, can rival the petroleum industry in its rapid strides of progress; none can surpass it in the magnitude and range of its operations; no other has been so completely American in its development.
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