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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fossil is so perfectly preserved that the generative elements, which are often indiscernable in living organisms, can be seen. Moreover, although the original plant fiber has disappeared, the oil has been preserved, in a hardened state, thus forming a perfect mummified picture of the cells. Whether this oil has been an important source of natural petroleum is a question geologists have been studying for years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World's 'Most Perfect Fossil' Found in Illinois by Professor of Biology | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capricorn to Cancer | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Capable of the greatest excitement over either business or fun, tall (6 ft.), heavily handsome President Paley has run through watercolor painting, oil painting, motorboating, airplanes, photography in rapid succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Money for Minutes | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Issues | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...underwriters or SEC. Last year this kind of quiet dickering achieved a record volume of $500,000,000. This year, private sales have already reached $300,000,000. Fortnight ago, Celanese Corp. floated $10,000,000 in debentures privately. Other examples: U. S. Rubber, $45,000,000; Consolidated Oil $25,000,000; Detroit Edison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Issues | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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