National Linseed Oil Trust 1918, when the price rose from $.50 per gallon to $1.80. National Linseed Oil Trust The National Linseed Oil Trust of St. Louis, Missouri, was a major company trust formed in 1885 to protect linseed oil interests in the United States. Once used extensively in painting, the oil today is also commonly known as "flax seed oil". The Trust was dissolved in 1920 after the U.S. Department of Justice charged they broke the Sherman Antitrust Act. Omaha millionaire Clark Woodman was an influential director on the board. Viewed today as one of many imitators of the Standard Oil Company, the
Metro Fuel Oil Energy plans to process 100% renewable biodiesel which can be blended with heating oil or diesel fuel. The plant will employ technology that will enable United Metro Energy to capture and utilize waste generated by the process. The plant is scheduled to open in Third Quarter 2012. United Metro Energy was founded in 1942 when Pauline Pullo recognized that home heating oil was a cleaner, more efficient alternative to coal in the heating fuel market. United Metro Energy remained a relatively modest retail operation until, in the late 1970s, when Paul J. and Gene V. Pullo, Pauline’s grandsons, took over