Word: gushers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon is extensive, found this interest very annoying. Texaco has had a tradition of down right individualism ever since it was founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution...
...young Pittsburgh law clerk Ernest Marland watched the founding of the Mellon fortune at sheriff's sales. In 1908 in Oklahoma he founded his own fortune when he struck a gusher on Willie-Cries-for-War's land. He built most of Ponca City, presented Oklahoma with Bryant Baker's heroic "Pioneer Woman" which stands at the entrance to his estate...
...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...
...Philadelphians who run and control Sun Oil are the Pews (not to be confused with Philadelphia's Pughs). Joseph Newton Pew founded the business in 1886, 27 years after the famed Titusville gusher came in, by buying natural gas properties. In 1894 the company purchased a refinery at Toledo. In the late 1890's when the Spindle Top field of South Texas was brought in. Sun acquired large leaseholds...
...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...