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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upturn in church giving. From a peak of $850,000,000 in 1929, contributions fell to $510,000,000 in 1932, to $410,000,000 in 1933. This year Counsellor Marts believes the South and West will show a 10% to 15% increase in giving. In the North and East the decline will halt. But mission boards and welfare agencies will experience the upturn more slowly than churches proper...
Last week for the first time in the dark & stormy history of East Texas oil fields a State body, controlling production, and a Federal body controlling interstate shipments, sat down in a joint effort to stop the flagrant traffic in illegal oil. It took a raging gasoline price war to bring this logical event about (TIME...
...story building in Kilgore in the heart of the East Texas Field, where hot oil is now flowing at the rate of at least 100,000 bbl. per day, seven men hunched around a long council table-three members of the new Federal Tenders Board, three members of the State Tenders Board and Col. Ernest O. Thompson, dominant member of the Texas Railroad Commission which is supposed to regulate the oil business of Texas. By order of Oil Administrator Ickes not a drop of oil could be accepted for interstate shipment without a tender certifying its legality...
...Administration meant business. President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...
...dispatched a lieutenant to investigate and intervene. By last week joyous Jersey motorists were filling their tanks for less than 10? per gal., tax included. New areas were affected, and in Philadelphia the battle spread to fuel oil, which dropped 1½? per gal. to 5½?. But in East Texas the Federal pressure brought quick results. This week some 50 East Texas refiners agreed to up wholesale gasoline to 11? per gal., 6? above last week's war price...