Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businesses, in at least two of which (aluminum and filling stations) there will be a collision with C.I.O. The C.I.O. countered by setting up committees to organize the 1,250,000 U. S. textile workers (only 85,000 of whom now belong to the United Textile Workers) and the petroleum industry. While William Green was sending out 50 fresh organizers, the C.I.O. laid plans for sending out 400 in the textile industry alone. More significant was the disparity between the two in dollars. Blithely C.I.O. appropriated $500,000 for its textile drive, announced it had a war chest...
...press has noted that Henry Latham Doherty, 66, whose Cities Service assets foot up to some $1,250,000,000, was visiting Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital for treatments to his ailing throat. Month ago the press discovered that when he visited Temple Hospital, the alert, goateed petroleum tycoon used the name of "Mr. Eggleston." Fact is, Henry Latham Doherty's home is a ten-room apartment on the hospital's top floor where medical attention is never more than a few moments away...
...East Indies. Standard got outlet for its oil, Texaco a source of supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal Dutch Shell and the Socony-Vacuum-Standard-of-New Jersey combination...
...long time Tulsa, Oklahoma, had the said oil helds and the acrid stench of petroleum, the world said, "Of Oklahoma expect only the and the oil of the soil." Yet KVOO of produced such ideahists in radio as Kathryn former Tulsa University student, whose voice resounds from coast coast in Columbia's Through a Woman's Miss Cravens tried and the stage before voice was radio. Now an manufacturer is have her voice his auspices
Significant in the agreement signed last week by Messrs. Hart & Clapp and Faiz Mohammed Khan was a proviso that the concession company must be entirely American. U. S. engineers have been well regarded in the East ever since they helped complete Iraq Petroleum's 1,200 mi. pipe line across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean in 1935. More important than that, and perhaps most important for the concession to Seaboard, is the fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants...