Sinclair Oil Corporation

…an American oilman who founded Sinclair Oil Corporation, a major integrated petroleum company of the early and mid-20th century. He also figured in the Teapot Dome Scandal in the 1920s.

…refining and petrochemical capacities of Sinclair Oil Corporation. Sinclair had been formed in Kansas in 1916 by Harry F. Sinclair (1876–1956), who had made his first big oil strike in Oklahoma in 1907.

The Sinclair Oil Corporation used it in its brand logo starting in 1930, and the “Sinclair dinosaur” became one of the most-recognizable symbols in American business. American film producer Walt Disney highlighted it, along with other dinosaurs, in Fantasia (1940), and a young animated Brontosaurus-like sauropod…