Administrative agencies

Group of men at high-octane gasoline meeting. The meeting took place in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 29. From left to right seated: Air Marshall Sir William L. Welsh, The Royal Air Force; Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War; H.H. Arnold. Standing from left to right: H. Wilkison, British Petroleum Representative; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War; Harry C. Burks, Jr., chairman of the Aviation Gasoline Advisory Committee of the Petroleum Administration for War; and Admiral DeWitt Ramsey, Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy.

Ralph K. Davies (standing) at unidentified meeting.

Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald (left) presenting Ralph K. Davies (right) with letter in which Warner Brothers' Vice-President Albert Warner offers help in calling the public attention to the need to preserve fuel oil.

Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald (left) presenting Ralph K. Davies (right) with letter in which Warner Brothers' Vice-President Albert Warner offers help in calling the public attention to the need to preserve fuel oil.

Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald (left) presenting Ralph K. Davies (right) with letter in which Warner Brothers' Vice-President Albert Warner offers help in calling the public attention to the need to preserve fuel oil.

Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (left) and Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War (right).

Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (left) and Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War (right).

Presentation and reading of citation on behalf of Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War. From left to right in foreground: W. Alton Jones, President WEP; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (behind Jones); B.I. Graves, Director, WEP; George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President, Defense Supply Corp.; Burt E. Hull, WEP, Vice President; and J.R. Parten, Director Transportation Division Petroleum Administration for War (partially obscured behind Hull). All others unidentified.

Opening the oil pipelines valves at Norris City, Illinois so oil from Texas can be loaded into railroad tank cars for shipment East. Left to right: Burt E. Hull, Vice President and General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; W. Alton Jones, President of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Defense Supplies Corporation; and Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War.

Group of men, apparently at an oil refinery. From left to right: Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War; George A. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President, Defense Supply Corp.; W. Alton Jones, President WEP; and Burt E. Hull, WEP, Vice President.