TY - GEN AU - Howarth,Stephen ED - Compañía Shell TI - A century in oil: the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, 1897-1997 SN - 9780297822479 AV - HD 9571.9 H853c 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - London : PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson, KW - Shell Transport and Trading Company KW - Industria y comercio del petróleo KW - Petróleo KW - Industria y comercio N1 - Includes index; Introduction: This Vast Concern 6 (10) Background: 1853-1891 16 (16) Origins: 1892-1898 32 (16) Too Far, Too Fast: 1899-1906 48 (24) Two Into One: 1907-1914 72 (24) The Great War: 1914-1918 96 (22) A Vast and World-Wide Scale: 1919-1925 118 (18) Roaring Along: 1925-1929 136 (20) Surviving the Flood: 1930-1934 156 (18) On the Roller-Coaster: 1935-1939 174 (16) Fuelling Democracy: 1939-1945 190 (20) The Fight to Recover: 1946-1951 210 (22) All the World's a Stage: 1952-1956 232 (18) Suez and After: 1957-1962 250 (18) An Operation Without Commercial Parallel: 1963-1967 268 (18) The End of the Buyers' Market: 1967-1972 286 (20) Cataclysm: 1973-1977 306 (20) Slings and Arrows: 1978-1982 326 (16) Exit Opec: 1983-1987 342 (16) Deeper Still and Deeper: 1988-1992 358 (18) The Changing Shape of Shell: 1993-1997 376 (22) Index 398 N2 - Drawing on unrestricted access to Shell archives, A Century in Oil is a commemorative volume designed to celebrate one hundred years of the company's history ER -