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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eying this field, Phillips took out a set of polymerization patents, soon ran up against competing patents owned by Texas Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), Standard Oil (Indiana). Rather than wage a costly fight, these four companies pooled their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad...
...loss of passengers in nearly two years of transpacific flying, did not think the Clipper had caught fire. After last January they had changed the design of the gasoline dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile, the Hawaii Clipper'?, sister ships, the China Clipper...
...Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...
...wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back of the neck. By the time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom...
...Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before: up almost...