Word: greenpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flooding the world with cheap fuel oil. No oil company was interested in developing a fuel to compete with oil. Bates had built a development plant in Brooklyn but it was dismantled in 1919 after the Greenpoint fire. His English contracts were broken. Litigation dragged on until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents...
...murderous Chicago rackets which put the Underworld in Rolls-Royces and furnished their coffins with $15,000 orchid spreads. But he had had a large hand in racketeering's perfection. Born in Brooklyn of an Italian family, he was a "good boy" until he was 17. Then, in a Greenpoint pool room, he knocked down a stranger, thought he had killed him. A cousin in Brooklyn's "Five Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left...