Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More exceptional will be a Negro Life Building (culture, not insurance); exhibits of the oil industry, among which will be a Hall of Religion provided by Lone Star Gas Co.; a radio theatre where audiences can see and hear Fair broadcasting, provided by Gulf Refining Co.; a jungle full of life-size dinosaurs provided by Sinclair...
...chance for revenge, set out to prevent Judge Holmes's confirmation by the Senate. He declared the nominee "personally obnoxious" to him, swore that Judge Holmes had jailed him for political motives. He brought before the Judiciary subcommittee the story of Pat Harrison's financial misfortunes in Gulf Coast real estate, charging that Judge Holmes had ratified the receiver's agreements by which some of Pat Harrison's debts to the defunct First National Bank of Gulfport had been reduced. The Judge admitted that he had done so as a routine function, pointed out that...
Diggest holder in the field is still United GAs. Standard Oil of Louisiana has bought 3,000 acres at a reported price of $10,000,000, and Gulf Oil is reputedly dickering for half of that for $6,000,000. Other companies with large acreage include Texas Corp., Philips Petroleum, American Liberty Oil Co., Cities Service's Arkansas Natural Gas, Lion Oil Refining Co. and Pelican...
...revealed Alvin Karpis had been fishing and hunting on the Gulf and in Florida for several months, had moved to New Orleans several weeks ago. His face had been lifted, his fingertips mutilated. The G-Men said that Karpis had paid a Chicago gang doctor $350 for the face-lifting operation, that the job was not worth...
Chairman Rieber did not buy the Barco concession itself. What he bought and now shares with Socony is all of the stock in a Gulf subsidiary which in turn owns 79% of the stock in a company called Colombian Petroleum. The other 21% of Colombian Petroleum is still held by Carib Syndicate. In the highly involved concession arrangement both Colombian Petroleum and the Gulf subsidiary are the concessionaires, each being responsible for the other's obligations, which include a prescribed amount of well-drilling and, after potential production has reached about 20,000 bbl. per day, the building...