Word: hookup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America. Jersey sold oil to Socony for its Chinese markets, but a large part of the production was shut in. Socony meantime was buying Russian oil for India, shipping kerosene from the U. S. Oilmen have long wondered why Jersey and Socony did not forge a closer hookup. The question became more pointed after Socony merged with Vacuum Oil two years ago, adding Australia and New Zealand to Socony-Vacuum Corp.'s Pacific empire. Last week it was learned that Jersey's Teagle and Socony-Vacuum's Pratt were finally hammering out the legal bumps...
...these young men and boys . . . camping and living together for two weeks in good fellowship and harmony. . . . Such gatherings as this are among the most important contributions to world peace." Soon 900,000 U. S. Scouts could hear two of their fellows speaking from the Jamboree over an international hookup. Both had obeyed the injunctions of B.P. "I have made five foreign friends in the short time I have been here," reported Eagle Scout William Lloyd Smith, 17, of Newton, Mass. "Here we are making friends to last a lifetime!" cried Eagle Scout Joseph Summers, 16, of Jefferson City...
...securities, that it had sought to foster the fortunes of the two famous academies at Andover and Exeter, that it had tried to help a much beloved ex-President of the United States to make a little money for his old age and that any corrupt political 'hookup' or intent could not be shown as to its 'preferred customers list.' No tar could be spattered upon the name of Morgan yesterday. So the committee adjourned early. It was, as we say, a dull...
...Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden while Orator Hitler harangued the nation over a compulsory radio hookup of every German station...
...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...