Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...
...behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard Oil Co. in 1911, and the 31-day prosecution which resulted in breaking up the tobacco trust the same year...
...Chaulmoogra Oil...
...Kingdom whose oil and grain Germany covets...