Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jersey Level. Standard,Gil Co. of New Jersey, which refused to hike its gasoline prices two months ago, won a price skirmish over competitors who did. As new customers flocked to Standard stations, the Texas Co. and Shell Oil cut the price of their gasoline by ½? a gallon to the "Jersey level." Most of Standard's other competitors followed suit, while smaller companies prepared to fall into line...
Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth...
Until now the chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West...
...about the deal to start negotiating three other "Jones type" contracts with U.S. wildcatters. He was also negotiating with Cities Service Co. to provide the capital for the development of 1,000,000 acres of Government-owned land. To other U.S. oilmen who hope for a modification of the oil law, it looked as if it might be only a question of time until the big oil companies would be back in Mexico...
Similar rates on an eight month contract are charged by the Cambridge Garage at less accessible 128 Mt. Auburn Street, but they are completely filled, along with the Gulf Oil Station opposite the Freshman Union, the Crimson Garage opposite Kirkland House on Boylston Street, and S. H. McCartney's underground chute on Brattle Square...