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Opening Oil Pipeline Valves in Norris City, Illinois

2008-530
Accession Number
2008-530
9.25x7.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 350477732
Related Collection
Davies, Ralph K. Papers
Keywords
Oil industries
Pipelines
HST Keywords
Illinois - Norris City
People Pictured
Davies, Ralph K. (Ralph Kenneth), 1897-1971
Jones, W. Alton (William Alton), 1891-1962
Hull, Burt E. (Burton Elias), 1884-1958
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Description
Opening valves at Norris City, Illinois so that oil from Texas can flow into waiting railroad tank cars for shipment East. Left to right: Burt E. Hull, Vice President and General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; W. Alton Jones, President of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; George H. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Defense Supplies Corporation; and Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.
Date(s)
February 19, 1943