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...summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output to Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). In recent months, despite overproduction, other major oil companies have been seeking new crude sources. Oilmen are jealous of their reserves and no flush fields have been opened for several years. Last week Standard of New Jersey, through its mid-continent producing unit, Carter Oil Co., bought Slick-Urschel Oil and all its holdings for $5,000,000 cash (estimated...
...that any increase would be tolerated. The Senate, moreover, has been rather balky for the last few weeks, and has passed a bill restoring veteran's pensions and salaries to the government officials in spite of a threatened veto. If there is any power of which the Senate is jealous, it is their power in foreign affairs, and any attempt of the President to take upon himself part of this power will be strongly opposed...
...legality of contracts, all had been approved by that jealous guardian of the national purse, Comptroller General McCarl...
...career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad. So fixed that he can "wipe out" the broker husband at will, the peasant-tycoon takes command of the situation and the daughter has a brilliant Metropolitan debut...
...tire makers are a notoriously jealous family and almost all of them live in Akron. But it was only a coincidence that the leading member of the family spent most of last week in Akron's Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates...