Requa mark l (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st edition. 360pp, pp, duodecimo, red cloth, tight binding, clean throughout, spine faded leaving titles dulled, mild wear to the corners & boards, owner's name.

Boards. 1st UK Edition. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 320. A little spotting to outside edge of textblock, o/w very good condn. Illustrated wraparound dustjacket has large chip to bottom edge of front panel (removing most of author panel), protected. 1st UK edition, same year as US edtion.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny faint smudge on the front panel. A bright copy of this western novel.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 24 Pp. Green Card Covers Printed In Dark Green, Text Printed In Black With Red Marginal Summaries. Very Good +, Some Fading At Edges, Minor Wear. Per Wikipedia, Mark L. Requa (1866 -1937) Was An American Mining Engineer And Petroleum Conservationist. Mark Lawrence Requa Was The Son Of Isaac Requa, A One Time President Of Oakland Bank Of Savings And Who Made A Fortune In Silver And Gold Mining In Virginia City. He Was Also An Engineer With Comstock Mining And Served As President Of The Central Pacific Railroad. Requa Was Educated At The Requa School In Piedmont, California And At Private Schools. He Was Admitted Into Yale University But Could Not Attend Due To Poor Eyesight. Requa Was The Manager Of The Eureka-Palisades Railroad. Requa Organized The White Pine Copper Company In 1902. In 1904, Requa Merged The White Pine Copper Company And The Boston And Nevada Copper Company Into The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. He Formed The Nevada Northern Railway To Transport Copper Ore From The Robinson Mine Near Ely, Nevada To Cobre, Nevada. Requa First Met Herbert Hoover In 1905. Requa Served As Vice President Of The American Institute Of Mining, Metallurgical, And Petroleum Engineers From 1917 To 1920 And Served As A Trustee From 1917 To 1919. He Also Served As A Member Of The American Petroleum Institute. Herbert Hoover Brought Requa With Him When He Joined The U.S. Food Administration In June 1917 And Requa Served As His Assistant. By 1918, Requa Was In Charge Of The Commercial Relations Division Of The Food Administration. He Also Served As A Consulting Engineer With The U.S. Bureau Of Mines. In January 1918, Requa Became The Director Of The Oil Division Of The U.S. Fuel Administration. He Helped To Coordinate The Production And Marketing Policies To Enable The Oil Industry To Support The Military Needs Of The United States During The War. He Served In That Role Through World War I Until The Administration Was Dissolved On June 30, 1919, And Also Served As The Petroleum Waste Conservator. He Established "Motorless Weekends" While At The Fuel Administration. In 1921, At The World Engineering Congress In Tokyo, Requa Warned Nations About Wasting Petroleum. After The War, He Moved Back To California. Requa Would Help Manage Hoover's Campaigns For The 1928 And 1932 Presidential Elections. In 1930, Requa Served As Chairman Of The San Francisco Bay Bridge Commission; The Commission Set Up To Determine The Site Of The San Francisco Bay Bridge. He Served As A Committeeman From California To The National Republican Committee From 1932 To 1936. Requa Partnered With Hoover In Mining Ventures After His Presidency; Hoover Had A Son Who Was Prominent In Oil Exploration In South America And Elsewhere. Requa Wrote At Least Two Other Books, Grubstake And The Relation Of Government To Industry. …