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...When his private 100,000,000-gal. reservoir at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. went almost dry, John Davison Rockefeller got permission to tap the Tarrytown water supply...
...Jersey. Vacuum and Standard reasons for merger are that they must face severe competition in New England and New York from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch Shell Oil. Testimony showed that Shell's 1929 sales in the district were 7,175,241 bbl. of 42 gal. each. Combined Standard and Vacuum 1929 sales in the same district were more than 17,500,000 bbl. of 50 gal. each...
...passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing...
...Bowery district average one man per day since May 10. This led Major Campbell to take his men downtown. During the raids, Bartender Sam Liebreman, finding a corpse in his speakeasy, looked its burned lips over, telephoned police to come carry it away. He showed officers his own 17-gal. stock of 15? liquor, protested : "It's all okay, what I been selling. He got it somewhere else. Have a drink...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...