The first fifty years: A business profile of Webber Oil Company

From inside the Dust Jacket. This book is about the history and management of a successful Maine company. It is an attempt to shed some light on those events that led to the creation and growth of Webber Oil Company. It portrays the drives, ambitions, dreams, and achievements of the individuals who molded Webber Oil into the organization it is today. Alburney Webber, the former livestock and timber trader who founded Webber Oil in 1935, seems a hero out of Horatio Alger. In more contemporary terms, so does Larry Mahaney, the former high school teacher and coach who now leads the company. This book explores such traits as entrepreneurial vision, willingness to gamble, and single-minded purpose needed in founding a company as well as the nature of executive skills necessary to manage an expanding concern.