Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant rich in corn, and oil...
...supply of suckers seemed unlimited. The Toronto Stock Exchange roared with a record trading in penny gold and oil stocks...
...station's present owners, who also own WNEW, have to sell because of an FCC ban on anyone's owning two stations serving the same area. But, said FCC, the would-be buyers, Brothers Murray and Meyer Mester, Brooklyn dealers in edible oils, have had brushes with the Federal Trade Commission-and other Government agencies. They had sold cottonseed oil, in containers decorated with "olive branches . . . and wording in Italian . . . for the apparent purpose of misleading buyers into thinking that the contents consisted of imported olive oil." Besides, FCC added, the Mesters had not been entirely frank with...
Wounded veterans in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital have twisted restlessly under the quips and songs of entertainers. What they really wanted to hear were the plans which U.S. industry has for their future-after they are discharged. Last week big, red-faced Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), stepped up to the hospital's loudspeaker. In his deep, Texan voice, he told the G.I.s of his company's plans for them...
...There is nothing charitable about the plan," said Holman. "It's good business." What better investment could Standard make, Holman asked? In the postwar years, the oil industry must have thousands of new retail outlets for its products...