Word: oil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Poet Carl Sandburg; his 60th; in Harbert, Mich. Said he: "I want to live to see what results from the wonderful contradiction in the Chinese scene where the Bank of England, the Standard Oil Co. and Soviet Russia all would like to defeat the Japanese...
...whom invitations have been sent are Lincol Filene, Chairman of Filene's department store in Boston, W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Board of the Union pacific Railroad, Kermit Roosevelt '09, president of the Roosevelt Steamship line, and Walter C. Teagle, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
...late John Davison Rockefeller made the country monopoly-conscious in the kerosene days of old Standard Oil Co., the most effective private monopoly ever developed in the U. S. Roosevelt I raised trust-busting to prime issue of his time. In the roaring 1920s the subject was seldom mentioned except by such old-school Progressives as George Norris and William Borah, and even in the first four years of the New Deal trust-busting languished. Meantime the form of Big Business changed from the monopolistic trust to the domination of an industry by a group of potent corporations. Monopoly...
...brief shots of the actual engagement are undramatic by Hollywood and headline standards, important by history's. Limited by the necessity of keeping under cover, Mayell's camera watches bombs landing around the nearby Standard Oil boats, sees a fallen Panay seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving...
When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...