Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated. They are imprisoned for lifetime in cages that are much too small. My destiny is to help them...
...cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve in New Mexico, is officer or director in 35 California corporations, including oil, shipping, banking. The whisper, "Chandler's in it," signifies a good thing to most California businessmen...
Fortune's wheel spins fast in the oil industry but never so dizzily as for Joshua S. Cosden. One turn lifted him from a small-town newspaper to a $50,000,000 Tulsa oil empire. Another landed him in Manhattan society with a $2,000,000 house in Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia and a show place on Long Island where he entertained Edward of Wales...
Then in a Wall Street tussle Josh Cosden lost his shirt, his homes and his company, which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. With $3,000,000 put up by his friends, the slim, personable oilman retreated to Texas, there to build another Cosden Oil and another $15,000,000 fortune...
...sales. Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks and coaling stations. But for every person who has seen a Fairbanks, Morse municipal power plant or a Fairbanks, Morse oil pipe-line pumping station, thousands in every corner of the civilized world have seen Fairbanks scales...