Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several times and switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day. It has more Teetors than Sun Oil has Pews. Hagerstown has less than 2,000 inhabitants, but a third of them work for Perfect Circle and the town has no unemployment. Perfect Circle mail grew so heavy that little Hagers-town got an $80,000 post office...
Slick-haired young Dr. Aristid von Grosse, research chemist of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., created a stir at a chemistry convention summer before last by exhibiting a speck, weighing one-tenth of a gram, of pure protoactinium which he had isolated. It was the first of the 92 elements to be isolated in the U. S. and this crumb constituted the world supply. Last week Dr. von Grosse created another stir by revealing that the world supply of protoactinium had unfortunately disappeared...
Crocker First National never loses money, has resources of $142,000,000, handles in addition to the Crocker oil, real estate and railroad interests such lucrative accounts as Matson Navigation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Standard Oil of California, Hawaiian Pineapple. Its dividend rate is $14 and its stock sells for $300 per share...
...lower brackets of the middle class, whose husbands worked hard at minor jobs that kept their wives supplied with candy, cinemas and cheap cars, they lived in loud but comparatively harmless amity. The more frolicsome hailed each other, farewelled and responded with such remarks as "Bum joor, sports!", "Olive oil!", "Yeppy...
Sure enough, the next day SEC's over-the-counter rule was challenged in the District of Columbia Supreme Court by J. Edward Jones, the Manhattan oil royalty dealer whom SEC has been trying to put out of business for nearly a year. His other SEC trouble involved issuance of new securities. That case-the only pending challenge of the 1933 Act-Royalist Jones appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which has not yet accepted it for consideration...