THIRST FOR OIL
AMERICANS TO DEVELOP BAKU. I'i<Mß Association —By Telegraph— Copyright NEW YORK, January 18. A party of engineers and officials of the Birnsdall Corporation, one of the largest < j i-producing companies in tie United '.Slates, will sail on January 27 for Baku, t: . js marking the first step in the opening Vy American operators of this rich oilfield, u’jlch has been a bone of contention among T zlish, American, and Italian interests. fhe mission will work under a conces s. in granted by the Moscow Government v. th the approval of the State Departr nt. It has priority of rights in the . C - ucasus. ■ President Day, of the Bamsdall Corp ration, obtained the concession some tine ago, when, as president of- the A oerican Trade Corporation, he became ‘ p acticklly the foreign trade agent of the k f mmunist Republics in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.—A. and N.Z. , C dole.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18766, 20 January 1923, Page 10
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