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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
...race was the Christmas Stakes, feature of the first day of the winter meeting at Santa Anita Park, near Los Angeles. A crowd of 40,000, including not only cinema notables but scores of leading turf people from all over the country, watched Goldeneye's victory. It was the second $5,000 Christmas Stakes purse in a row for his owner, Albert Anthony Baroni, whose Top Row, after winning it last year, went on to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in February...
Last week in Los Angeles a bigger & better merger brought a smarter oilman than Tom Slick triumphantly into the news. After five years of patient maneuvering, poker-faced Harry Ford Sinclair had got what he wanted in California- a major oil distributing system in that State. He got it by agreeing to share it with silver-bearded Chairman Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., just as he got his great holding company, Consolidated Oil Corp., on shares with the Rockefellers in 1932. Oilman Sinclair's triumph was the acquisition of working control of Richfield...
Approved last September by two-thirds of the bondholders and creditors and last week by long-suffering Federal Judge William Parry James in Los Angeles District Court, the reorganization provides for a new company, Richfield Oil Corp., to which Rio Grande will contribute assets of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. Underwritten by Rio Grande, by Consolidated Oil and by Cities Service will be an issue of $10,000,000 in debentures, available to Richfield and Pan American bondholders and creditors through subscription certificates given them along with shares of stock in the new company. Underwritten by Kuhn...
...modified superlative so dear to the West Coast, the Central Bank of Oakland is the "largest California bank outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles" (resources: $43,000,000). Its 15-story building at Broadway and 14th Street, where 15 Oakland trolley lines converge, is described by the bank as "sublimated and refined Italian Romanesque." Last week Amadeo Peter Giannini, who if not precisely sublimated or Romanesque is at least refined Italian, reached out across the Bay from San Francisco, firmly grasped the stoutly independent Central Bank of Oakland...