Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming years." 2) With one exception the percentage of profits in relation to capitalization of the Mexican companies was an average of 34.28% during the years 1934 to 1936, while the U. S. oil companies' percentage of profit was 6.13%. 3) The cost of producing a barrel of oil in Mexico during 1935 was 8.6 pesos, while in the U. S. the cost was 48.1 pesos and 4) on Jan. 1, 1937 the reserves and surpluses of the companies totaled more than $21,000,000. "The principal foreign petroleum companies form great American and British trusts and their interests...
...Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...
...mustached men in panama hats edged up and one of them said: "Leland Groezinger and Gerald S. Levin, as joint tenants, bid $411,150." Cameras clicked as Mr. Levin handed Mr. Berven, as a down payment, a crumpled cashier's check for $43,000. Thus transferred lock, stock & barrel to the bidders' law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, acting for a committee of bondholders, was the most famed little football college on the West Coast (TIME...
Running a two-mile race as a program filler at last year's Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another sensation, invited him to run the mile against Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali of Italy and Glenn Cunningham, world's record holder. Gene Venzke also entered to shoot at the world mark for three-quarters of a mile, incidentally pace the other four...
...riparian rights to their small plots of sand. To the City they pay nothing for licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand...