Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buffalo 71.4 New Bedford...
...derivative, kerosene- such was the situation in 1906, when the American petroleum industry had combined assets of about $750,000,000. In 1922, however, the industry's assets were ten times this figure, and its leading product had become gasoline consumed primarily by motor vehicles. A. C. Bedford, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, made the principal address at Titusville. He emphasized the difficulty at present of purchasing and storing the abnormal petroleum output; he nevertheless expressed confidence in the future of the industry. Mr. Bedford stated that during his 40 years...
...special committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. gave President Coolidge their view of what policies are vital for the welfare of American business. The Committee included Julius H. Barnes, A. C. Bedford, Lewis E. Pierson, Charles E. Weed, Willis H. Booth, John H. Fahey, F. L. Kent. These Committeemen did the talking at the conference, while President Coolidge was almost exclusively a listener...
More prominent than either Pratt or Folger in Standard Oil circles is Alfred C. Bedford, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Like; Pratt, the moving spirit of the oil industry is a Brooklynite. He is 59 years old, and was educated in Brooklyn and Europe. He has been in the employ of the Standard Oil since 1882. In 1907 he became a director of the dominant New Jersey Company, of which he has been President since 1916. During the war he was Chairman of the National Petroleum War Service Committee...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra, which closed its season on May 21 with a concert in Brattle Hall, yesterday elected officers for the coming year and five new members. The selections were as follows: President, Richard Tuttle Loring Jr. '24, of Newtonville; vice-president, Paul Whitcomb Williams '25, of New Bedford; secretary, Charles Jesse Childs '25, of Cambridge; treasurer, John Langdon Sullivan '24 of Durham, N. H. manager, Theodore Sleeper Ruggles '24, of Cambridge; members J. L. Combs '26, P. T. Doherty '26. R. P. Eckert '25, J. H. Newton '25, and E. T. Payson...