Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Laird Doyle, 30, crack Warner Brothers film scenarist (Oil For the Lamps of China, Special Agent, Cain and Mabel); of a fractured skull and internal injuries received when his airplane crashed near Grand Central Air Terminal; in Glendale, Calif...
Died. Grant McCargo, 72, onetime (1928-32) president of Standard Oil Co. of Pa., for 25 years head of Pittsburgh Hotels Corp.; in Pittsburgh...
...first students in a Boston Y. M. C. A. automotive school. He worked on the first automobiles to reach the U. S. from abroad, learned to drive a "steamer," helped devise the first self-starter. In 1913 he landed a job as sales engineer for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also president of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, vice president of the American Trucking Association. Three years ago, Truckman Winchester conceived...
...Tyler, Tex., a brawny oil-field worker walked into the Gladewater Cafe, demanded fried chicken. Informed that no chicken was to be had, he spied a caged canary, ordered it fried "with plenty of gravy," paid $25 for his meal...
...bleakly. Jim Bridges got out of his chair, lit the oil lamp and sat down again. At 6:30 Pearl Bridges gave birth to a boy, at 6:32 to a girl, at 6:34 to a girl, at 6:36 to a girl. Jim Bridges fainted...