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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: fine. First edition. First printing stated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Oblong hardcover. xvi+ 234 pp. with index. Iluustrated with photos. The history of the Interstate Oil Transport, a company that started out as a small family buisness that owned tugs and barges that moved oil from refineries to distribution points along the Delaware River. IOT, under the leadership of Thornton Hooper, scion of a seafaring family who by age nineteen became master of a 3-masted schooner, expanded to other parts of the Eastern and Gulf Coasts and wound up supplying pertroleum-derived enegy to at least 25 percent of the American population.