Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking toward the time when Earth's supply of coal & oil gives out, imaginative scientists have long tinkered with ponderous reflectors and batteries of photoelectric cells to harness the sun's outpouring of energy. Lately they have realized that plants are better converters of this energy than any man has ever devised. Ordinary cornstalks, ground to powder, can be used as a furnace fuel, like powdered coal. The Cabot researchers will try to develop bigger, more vigorous and faster-growing trees by artificial pollination and juggling of chromosomes (heredity elements in the germ cells). After 50 years...
...Wildcatter (Universal): Some of New Universal's unknown actors in one of New Universal's rigidly wholesome and unimportant success dramas-showing how a wildcat oil promoter is fooled by and then fools the big companies who are trying to put him out of business...
...worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced...
...Coryell & Son is an oil marketing company with 486 cut-rate filling stations in about 400 towns and cities in 14 Midwest States. Its highly efficient exodus may have seemed remarkable to Colorado Springs, but in Lincoln people have learned to expect almost anything from a management whose self-advertising is continuous and unique. For 36 years Nebraskans have lacked no reminders of the beautiful friendship between Levi Leland Coryell Sr. and Levi Leland Coryell Jr., who are respectively president and general manager of the company. It started soon after the company did, in Auburn, Neb. when Junior Coryell...
Both in terms of the contract and the type of goods sold, however, installment selling in the 1930's differs from that of the 1920's. Reared to respectability by the automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment...