Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodrich-Miller. Suffering from lower crude rubber prices and competition, Miller Rubber Co. of Akron has not done well since 1926. Last week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...
Sense-training is gained through auto-education. Similar methods are applied to the development of the more delicate senses. A child is given two crude, one-string fiddles, one with frets, one without. By comparing noises made on both, he can soon fit in the missing frets, play the second fiddle. Children who can read are encouraged to act each sentence out in dumb show. The system tries to make all of a pupil's acts coordinate with all his senses. Through ideological gymnastics, an intellect is developed by the exercise of attention, comparison, judgment...
Especially important to oilmen seemed object No. 2, for from California's wells have oozed troubles which have spread over the entire industry. In an attempt to eliminate overproduction by forcing independent operators to limit their output, Standard of California began cutting crude oil prices, sent great quantities of gasoline east as cheap as 6 cents a gallon in shipload lots. To meet this new level in the price of petroleum products, Standard of New Jersey through two subsidiaries* cut crude prices from 19? to 41? a barrel...
Standard of California, biggest producer of crude oil in the U. S., third largest refiner in the world. Most important recent developments have been the Kettleman Fields discovery in 1928 and the purchase of Pacific Public Service to dispose of natural gas (TIME...
...challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn that it was "poorly expressed, crude and ungrammatical." (He afterwards published it, revised, in his Physical Culture Magazine...