Word: asphalting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principally in the Tampico territory), 750 mi. of pipe lines, 65 mi. of railroads. In Venezuela: 3,100,000 acres of oil & gas land in the Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana's President Edward George Seubert was thinking of these properties when he said: "There...
...Mack that in the past few years he had been called upon to jail several humble citizens for restraining trade but the defense hardly winced for this suit is civil, not criminal. Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting. Besides sugar, Mr. Fly has been after the Asphalt Shingle and Roofing industry. Before that he broke up a combination of rivet, nut & bolt makers. Mr. Rice won his anti-trust spurs against a chicken combine...
...similar $6 per car increase on crude phosphate rock, sulphur, pig & scrap iron, stone, crude oil, asphalt...
...crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path. He waved wildly but there was a crackling and splintering and off went the truck, leaving $25,000 worth of uselessness on the asphalt...
Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear Lawrence--Long a student of heraldry, I have satisfied myself that the only families north of the Mason and Dixon line entitled to bear arms are the Winthrops and Saltonstalls." This was apropos of the question of putting a coat of arms on the gable end of the new unit...