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...Asphalt. Apparently there was not sufficient money in the case of the General Asphalt pool, described by Witness John L. Weeks. Members of the pool included Morgan Partners Thomas Cochran and Horatio Gates Lloyd, chairman of General Asphalt's executive committee. Though $6,000,000 was originally deposited, the members were assessed an additional $1,369,000, and after two and a half years of futile operations, the pool wound up by distributing the stock to members at a further loss...
...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...