Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent for vigorous organization he could not fill it. To build from the ground up he established the East Northfield schools and conferences, the Moody Bible Institute which still flourishes in Chicago, keeps a radio soul-saving service going...
Last week's indictments charged the defendants with fixing prices by: 1) operating two buying pools, one in East Texas, the other in Oklahoma and the nearby mid-continent fields, through which they "concertedly purchased large quantities of gasoline in spot transactions from independent refiners at artificial prices which they sought to and did establish and maintain as the going market prices"; 2) selling gasoline to some 4.000 jobbers under long-term contracts in which the price would be determined by the average of the spot market prices published in the Chicago Journal of Commerce and Platt...
...result, according to the indictment, was that large sums of money were arbitrarily extracted from jobbers. Furthermore it was specifically charged that the defendants were still attempting to stabilize prices by taking ''distress" (i. e., excess) gasoline off the market, particularly in the East Texas fields...
...idea of forming pools to buy up surplus gasoline reached oilmen from Washington in 1933 when East Texas skimming plants were playing hob with the market. First pool buying was done in 1934 under the direct supervision of Secretary of the Interior Ickes acting as administrator of the petroleum industry. That year he said: "I feel that this plan is a real move toward stabilization of the oil industry." The program, however, did little good, largely because the East Texas refiners and some major companies could not be persuaded to join the pool. Month after his announcement, Secretary .Ickes made...
Born in Hamburg, Iowa, at some undisclosed date before 1900, Lilie Bouton traveled to Reno and then to San Francisco, attended the Van Ness Seminary on Nob Hill, soon broke away from her parents' domination and got a part in a San Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when...