kentucky's ashland oil and refining company founder and ceo, paul g. blazer (1890–1966), served twice as a government salaried dollar-a-year man: from 1933 to 1935 under president franklin d. roosevelt's national recovery administration on the code of fair competition for the petroleum industry as chairman of the blazer committee and a second time during world war ii as chairman of district ii refining for president roosevelt's petroleum administration of war. during world war ii, socialite doris duke worked in a canteen for u.s. sailors in egypt at such a salary.