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On the recordApril 1, 1929
The Board decided that there was nothing they could suggest in the nature of agreement between oil companies for the restriction of production, their belief being that the key of the situation lay in the control of drilling, not in the stifling of production itself through interstate agreement.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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