Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time a luxury already enjoyed in about one of every seven homes in Holland. The select list who followed the example of 340,000 Dutchmen already included Harrison Williams of North American Co., Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water or electricity. This music will come over telephone lines...
...from denying such charges, oilmen plaintively asserted that this was merely what they had been directed to do by the New Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...youngsters built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets raced 20 laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named Norman Alley opened a track in Chicago. Although Promoter Alley at first claimed that there...
Winner of the 1936 title, Oilman Keasey of Corvallis, Ore., was not on the shooting line last week, but a majority of the other ablest U. S. archers had answered the Lancaster Archery Club's blanket invitation which started: "Come bend a bow with us at Lancaster this summer," ended with two lines from Kipling's Philadelphia (Rewards and Fairies...
Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband...