Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other not-so-novelties include a music amphitheatre, buildings of animal husbandry, poultry and agriculture, an art show assembled by Dr. Robert Harshe, who did the same...
...when the Colgate Outing Club of Colgate University bravely announced its intention to sponsor the first intercollegiate outboard regatta there was a dubious wagging of heads. Veteran outboard drivers throughout the country smiled tolerantly. The college boys, it seemed, were laboring under a hallucination. Wait until they, with oil-besmeared faces, experienced the pounding and physical battering unavoidable in an outboard hydroplane, it was murmured...
Pittsburgh's market, which grew out of an oldtime oil exchange, is housed in a one-story building on Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh's Wall Street. About $30,000,000 worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph...
...practices nor the policies of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange have changed materially. President Howard Butcher Jr., senior partner in a local brokerage firm, carries on the ancient traditions despite the half-hearted threats of revolt by younger members. Excitement is occasionally provided on the floor by Salt Dome Oil, a mysterious issue which moves as much as 12 points between sales. As characteristic of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange today as it was in the 1870's is a deal of fast trading in local traction securities, foundation of most of Philadelphia's many fortunes...
...homes both in New Orleans and San Antonio, Tex., occasionally takes a look at Rodessa's oil derricks from his new $60,000 Lockheed Electra plane, equipped with...