Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large stock interest and will in all probability be represented on the directorate. Electric Bond & Share will have a controlling interest in the as yet unchristened new company, which will also purchase from Standard Oil of New York the natural gas properties in Texas and Louisiana owned by Magnolia Gas Co., a Standard subsidiary...
...around the ring. For a round Scott boxed nicely. In the third round Sharkey, overanxious and savagely aggressive, swung a left hook which landed on Scott's hip, below the belt. The Englishman slid quickly to the floor, screwed up his face, claimed a foul. Referee Lou Magnolia ordered Sharkey to his corner, helped Scott up and examined him. Because Scott has claimed fouls in eight previous fights it was more or less taken for granted that he would try it in this one. Before the fight, as evidence of good faith, Scott's manager had persuaded...
...Will you stand up?" screamed Sharkey. "I can't Jack-you hit me low." Having made sure that Scott would not go on, Magnolia raised Sharkey's hand and gave him the fight, disqualifying Scott for refusing to fight. Said Gene Tunney, a spectator, "Scott quit." Said loquacious James Johnston, manager of Scott and friend of Manhattan's Mayor Walker: "First they send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes...
Standard of New York. One of the major sections of the "Oil Trust" was Standard of New York, whose 1928 income was about $40,000,000. A distributing company itself, it controls Magnolia Petroleum Co. and General Petroleum Corp. of California, through which it operates some 221,000 acres of oil land...