 | Roger Adelson - Political Science - 1995 - 272 pages
...sea lord, to preside over the Royal Commission on Oil Supply for the Navy, instructing him bluntly: 'You have got to find the oil; to show how it can...and cheaply in peace; and with absolute certainty in war.'29 APOC would service the need, but not until the Foreign Office had complicated the situation.... | |
 | Edwin Black - History - 2004 - 497 pages
...maniac himself, Fisher, to locate that fuel. 68 In June 1912, Churchill wrote, "My Dear Fisher. . . . You have got to find the oil: to show how it can be...and cheaply in peace; and with absolute certainty in war." 69 But now Shell was purchasing Anglo-Persian's oil for other markets. The first 15,000 barrels... | |
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I don't know what I have to give in exchange or in return. You have got to find the oil: to show how it can be stored cheaply: how it can be purchased regularly and cheaply in peace; and with absolute certainty in war. 