Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...
...neat ingot will have come out of the U. S. steel mills. 48,000,000 times before the year has ended, predicted J. R. Nutt, president of the Union Trust Company of Cleveland, last week, in Trade Winds, his bank's magazine. Automobiles, building and railroad equipment and petroleum industry doings will cause the mills to produce 1,000,000 more ingots than were pressed in 1926, the record year...
...Benjamin Talbott Brooks said that he could make petroleum taste like soap and peaches, did not foresee that petroleum would be diverted from its main purpose of driving automobiles...
...Naturally, the ramifications of the world's largest industry, namely, petroleum, in which all three of us are interested, affords and will always afford a wide field for conversation...