Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world responded. In 1933, 161 deep-sea ships cleared Albany. Last year 255 ships dropped down the river to the sea, 625 barges plied up & down the deepened and renovated canal. Total volume of Albany's 1935 harbor traffic: 500,000 tons, chiefly grain, oil, wood pulp, canned goods. About 90% of the world's ships can use Albany's harbor. Latest figures of the U. S. Shipping Board list Albany as eleventh in foreign imports, 21st in total foreign trade...
...Jean) Paul Getty, 43, Oxford-educated spokesman for the Los Angeles Getty oil interests, who let one of his representatives, Harold L. Rowland, state his attitude toward the merger of two Tide Water operating subsidiaries with the parent holding company. Although his father left an estate of $21,000,000, Jean Paul Getty, an only son, had to make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer...
Corporation Meeting. In funereal atmosphere punctuated only by tugboat tootings in the harbor, two score small fry and a few big stockholders gathered at No. 17 Battery Place last week to approve or vote down the merger of Tide Water Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co. into a new Tide Water Associated Oil Co. William Francis Humphrey, stout, double-chinned president of Tide Water Associated who is also head of San Francisco's famed Olympic-Club, called the meeting to order, clipped through parliamentary procedure in approved police court fashion...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes applied the word when he was in private practice. The textile industry, with its thousands of small, independent mills, is still the biggest factoring field. In the past five years, however, the factors have taken to such lines as shoes, furs, gloves, lumber, fuel oil. In the case of James Talcott, Inc. these new industries are largely handled by associated factors, the company itself merely refactoring, which is analogous to rediscounting in banking...
...brief announcement from an office on Manhattan's Pine Street last week wound up U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al, most significant anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil Co. in 1911. After spending five of its nine years in litigation, the Sugar Institute was officially closing its doors...