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...cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...
...months after he had filed one of the most potent lawsuits ever brought in New York County's Supreme Court. Main defendants: Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); great Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Last week stocky, easygoing Son Jacob was head of the Blaustein family and administrator of its Baltimore charities when Justice Samuel Irving Rosenman (onetime Governor's Counsel to F. D. R.) handed down a decision in the case...
Catholic liberal editors admitted that there was not much they could do about it if church leaders should give MacManus the go-ahead. MacManus' self-styled "No 1 Man" is Frank Jacob Mullen, who lately resigned as top ad salesman for the Satevepost to promote MacManus' proposed Catholic newspaper merger. Said he: "It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference what editors think...
...national air defense program such as that envisioned by President Roosevelt must include provision for rapid and thorough training of huge numbers of pilots as well as tremendous expansion of production capacity, according to a joint interview granted yesterday by Jacob P. Den Hartog, associate professor of Applied Mechanics, and William Bollay, instructor in Applied Mechanics...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...