Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...
McGowan told Gerstley, and H. Norman Richards '50, in Richards' room in Dunster House, that he had been in Bangor, Maine, and was hitch-hiking to New York, where, he said, he was employed on a Standard Oil Company tanker due to leave for Rangoon within the next few days...
Today the Alexander & Baldwin interests extend into shipping, hotels, communications, oil, banking, one-tenth of all Hawaiian pineapple, one-eighth of the island sugar. Since Henry Baldwin's death in 1911, the empire has been ruled by stocky Frank Baldwin (the Alexanders are no longer active in the management). Frank is training his own son, Asa, 40, to carry on. Last week, Asa moved into the new company as his father's second in command...
Middle East oil, essential as it is to a U.S. war effort, is second in importance to the strategic position of the Middle East countries...
Thereafter, the dream of attaining Cathay was half-lost in the rich reality of Arctic furs, ivory, oil and blubber. Thus began the long, harrowing, and still unfinished labor of charting the frozen Arctic regions...