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...Never a gusher, Citizen Coolidge praised President Hoover with studied restraint. His review of the Hoover record was fair and logical. Because Republicans have conspired to suppress it, the name Roosevelt was not once mentioned. Gales of cheers and laughter swept the Garden as Mr. Coolidge referred briefly to his past service,"When I was in Washington. . . ."He called the Republican party "the most efficient instrument for sound popular government ever entrusted with the guidance of a great nation." He deprecated the idea of Change for Change's sake. He referred to Democrat Grover Cleveland as "a wise statesman...
...having branched into unrelated lines, said proper planning would have carried petroleum companies through the Depression. Some of his listeners marveled to hear such talk from Tycoon Doherty for if ever a company had diversified interests it is Cities Service Co. Besides being a complete oil organization, from gusher to fuel tank, it also controls natural and manufactured gas companies, power companies, street car lines. And if ever an individual had diversified interests it is Tycoon Doherty. He is a banker and stock promoter as well as an engineer. He recently bought a half-interest in the Kansas City Journal...
...appeal the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis permitting Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. of New York to merge (TIME, June 15). Straightway every oil merger rumor of the last three years came to life. Last week a gusher of oil news spouted on the front page of every newspaper. Of greatest magnitude was the announcement that...
...assistants. When all was ready, the barrel rolled down its track, was touched off by electricity when it reached the end. The first charge did not work, but the second did. Satisfied with their job, the flinty-faced Kinleys got ready to go home. Others prepared to cap the gusher which continued to spout 50 ft. into...
Next day Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...