Title:
Small town, big oil : the untold story of the women who took on the richest man in the world--and won / David W. Moore.
Author:
Moore, David W. (David William), 1940- author.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Diversion Books, 2018.
Call Number:
TD195.P4 M663 2018
Abstract:
"In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. At the time, it would have cost $600 million to build and was expected to generate 400,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the largest oil refinery in the world. The project was vigorously supported by the governor, Meldrim Thomson, and by William Loeb, the notorious publisher of the only statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader. But three women vehemently opposed the project--Nancy Sandberg, the town leader who founded and headed Save Our Shores; Dudley Dudley, the freshman state rep who took the fight to the state legislature; and Phyllis Bennett, the publisher of the local newspaper that alerted the public to Onassis' secret acquisition of the land. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by these three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, the media, and the Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career, and spare the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland." -- Page 4 of cover.
Edition:
First Diversion Books edition.
ISBN:
9781635761887
Physical Description:
xv, 270 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
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Contents:
The stranger -- Early alert -- Devising a strategy -- SOS emerges -- Abandoning the dream -- The man behind the throne -- The man on the throne -- Meeting Olympic -- Touring Durham Point -- Town meeting -- Pursuing the dream -- Petitions and the governor -- The oil refinery : nineteen articles and reports -- Campaigning for oil -- The richest man in the world -- The oil man cometh -- New year, new woes -- More on the petitions -- The economic bonanza myth -- Rye surprise -- Saving the dream -- The other Greek -- SOS panic time -- As rich as Croesus -- Final preparations -- Dudley's hearing -- Olympic Refineries presentation -- The town speaks -- Concord speaks -- Immediate aftermath.
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