Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...Total corporate financing for the first six months footed up to $569,000,000 as against $201,000,000 in the same period of last year. Some $300,000,000 will probably be offered in the next few weeks alone. Pending issues include: $75,000,000 for Consolidated Oil; $70,000,000 for Duquesne Light; $53,000,000 for Edison Electric Illuminating of Boston; $28,000,000 for B. F. Goodrich; $25,000,000 for Commercial Investment Trust, notable because it is a preferred stock issue not bonds. More than four-fifths of all current financing is refunding-swapping expensive...
...chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane's phraseology the proposition appeared to be "misleading." And last week Counsel Burns obtained injunctions against two security dealers, one of which was blandly assuring prospective investors that "the Government and John D. Rockefeller were behind all oil properties...
Depression pushed Cosden Oil Co. into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...
...year it was reorganized Cosden Oil lost $554,000, lost another $1,000,000 last year. And last week in Fort Worth, Cosden Oil took to cover by petitioning itself into the hands of the courts for a reorganization under Section 776 of the Bankruptcy...