| Summary: | interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton and Tom Z. Parrish on 6 occasions from 10 March to 6 November 1981 in Houston, Texas. 6 774 pages in 2 vols.; index Volume I, interviews 1-4, 382 pages; Mills Cox was an independent oilman and executive in oil and gas companies; early life in Dublin and Bishop, Texas; education, Texas A&M University and Baylor University; influenza epidemic of 1918; roustabout in Texas City; graduate study, Yale University; early wildcatters and independent oilmen; early exploratory technology and pipe-line industry; roughnecking; vice president, Mills Bennett Production Company; East Texas Oil Field; Texas oil and gas law; Barber's Hill Oil Field; effects of Great Depression on Houston; recollections of H. L. Hunt and Columbus Marion Dad Joiner; Railroad Commission decision to prorate oil, 1929; recollections of 1928 Democratic National Convention, Houston; opposition to Prohibition; informal meetings of international oilmen; recollections of Torkhild Reiber and Jesse Jones; effect of New Deal petroleum code on oil industry; oil discovery in Webb, Nueces, and Bee counties; Connally Hot Oil Act; depletion allowances; report of Paley Commission, 1952; captain, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II; assistant depot supply officer, Brooks Field; command of service squadrons, Marana Army Air Base; deployment to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory; modification of Douglas C54 and C-46 airplanes, Great Falls, Montana; recollections of Russian officers; abuse of lend-lease system; employment by H. L. Hunt; gas supply manager, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; vice president, Texas Eastern Production Corporation; vice president and director, Wilcox Trend Gathering System, Inc.; purchase of Petroleos Mexicanos gas. Volume II, interviews 5-6; appendix; index; 392 pages; Russian visitors to Great Falls; president, Transwestern Pipeline Company; recollections of Sid Richardson; chairman, Texas Water Development Board, 1965; financing of water projects; board's long-range planning for Texas's water needs; rejection of water plan by voters; public hearings on plan; court appointment as supervisor-manager, Lo-Vaca Gathering Company, 1973; rate hearing; conflict with the City of San Antonio; purchase of gas for Lo-Vaca; political aspects of utilities industries; competition between Texas and nonproducing states for gas; incentives for gas development; characterization of oil pioneers; technological improvements in oil industry.
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