Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prices declined, but the fall was kept orderly by the Standard Oil companies, with the view of stabilizing the situation. The farming states, devoted as they are to plans for stabilizing wheat, could see no virtue in employing similar methods in any other industry, and Governor McMaster of South Dakota gained considerable applause when he purchased with state funds some 160,000 gallons of gasoline from a hard-pressed refiner, and offered it for sale at 16¢. At once the Standard of Indiana lowered its price to 16¢ too. The price-cutting war spread to other states. Governor Charles...
...states?Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ? were affected by the 6.6¢ cut made by the Standard of Indiana. In addition, the Standard of Kentucky made a cut of 1¢ in Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. The Standard of Nebraska cut its retail prices to 16¼¢. Slight cuts followed in the Eastern states. W. C. Teagle (President of the Standard of New Jersey) declared that, unless crude oil prices continued to fall, further cuts in retail gasoline prices were unlikely...
...blame is to be laid for the drop in oil prices, some of it should go to the Governors of South Dakota and Nebraska, but most of it to the ordinary citizens in the Los Angeles Valley, who last Spring discovered oil literally in their back yards and under their front lawns...
...Colorado and West Virginia, will be put into commission on Aug. 30. These are the last two ships of their kind which will be built in this country for ten years, under the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The West Virginia and Colorado will supplant the Delaware and North Dakota, which will be scrapped...
During the recent investigation of the bankrupt Manhattan brokerage firm of Kardos & Burke, the most notable witness was the junior partner, John Burke, thrice Governor of North Dakota and Treasurer of the United States under the Wilson administration. Mr. Burke waived immunity to come from Montana to testify concerning his part in the operations of the firm. He told a pitiful tale of ignorance concerning the affairs of the notorious bucket-shop of which he was a partner, and concerning the results of its failure upon his personal fortune...