Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richfield Oil's President James A. Talbot, Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs...
Natural Art and Fine Art met, last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
...critic pronounced "the poorest orchestral program of the year." Three U. S. works were introduced: Prelude to a Drama, by Sandor Harmati, conductor of the Omaha Orchestra; Study in Sonority (for 40 violins-title by Stokowski), by Wallingford Riegger, New York pedagog; Indian Dances, by Frederick Jacobi, of California...
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...Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Standard Oil of California. Present also were Harry F. Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled...