His father left the teaching profession as a school principal and subsequently became the publisher of the nearby Aledo Times-Record regional newspaper.

[3] At the age of 12, Blazer began selling magazine subscriptions for The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal, and he eventually hired a full-time secretary.

[5] After one year of college, Blazer joined the Educational Division of Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as manager of its school subscriptions.

[1] In 1917, during World War I, Blazer entered the 123rd U.S. Army Hospital Unit organized by the university, received a medical discharge due to an accident later that year.

[10] In 1920, Paul Blazer went to work as vice president of the Great Southern Oil & Refining Company in Lexington, Kentucky.

[3] In 1930, Blazer became vice president of the newly established Independent Petroleum Association of America, a position he held for ten years.

During Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first presidential term in the summer of 1933, J. Howard Marshall, a young assistant solicitor from Yale Law School working for Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, launched on a code of fair competition for the petroleum industry.

[18] During this period the Department of Interior disbursements for the construction of aviation gasoline facilities amounted to $235,836,850.80, which included the 1942 $6,000,000 expansion of the Catlettsburg refinery.

[19] Blazer was on Kentucky Governor Simeon S. Willis' WWII Postwar Planning Commission and he was the chairman of the Transportation Committee.

[3] The National Petroleum Council (US) was established in 1946 at the request of President Harry S. Truman to represent industry views on Department of Interior matters relating to oil and natural gas.

[17] Blazer kept Ashland Oil and Refining Company active in the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, which was located in the Cincinnati Federal Reserve Bank Building.

[1] Blazer and Hull were prominently involved in the implementation of the Department of Interior's and the United States Army Corps of Engineers' 1953 $200,000,000 Ohio River Navigation Modernization Program, the first such projects since 1929.