Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...
Barnsdall Corp. last week purchased controlling interest in Mona Motor Oil Co., independent oil and gasoline distributor in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The acquisition links Barnsdall's South Dakota and Northwestern marketing systems with its Oklahoma and Kansas chains of bulk and retail stations...
Harry Ford Sinclair, petroleum tycoon was last week reported as about to acquire Richfield Oil Co. of California. The rumor was not denied or affirmed at Sinclair offices, but it was conceded that Bancamerica-Blair, Sinclair bankers, held a large block of Richfield stock. Richfield is fourth largest oil distributor in California (leaders are Standard of California, Union Oil and Shell Oil), would supply Sinclair with desirable California distribution...
...means of photographs, through a new 13-inch "Triplet", the most powerful telescope of its class, that the discovery was made at the Lowell Observatory, and the Harvard Observatory, in its role of distributor of the astronomical news of the Western Hemisphere, is sending word of the discovery to the observatories of the other continents...
Anglo-American Oil, once a marketing unit of Standard, now passing back to Standard of New Jersey by a proposed merger with its subsidiary, Standard Oil Exporting Corp. Anglo-American is the largest distributor in England...