Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then in a Wall Street tussle Josh Cosden lost his shirt, his homes and his company, which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. With $3,000,000 put up by his friends, the slim, personable oilman retreated to Texas, there to build another Cosden Oil and another $15,000,000 fortune...
...Enactment of statutes to continue the NRA-born Federal Alcohol Control Administration, Petroleum Administrative Board, Central Statistical Board, Electrical Home & Farm Authority...
Gratitude is one of the virtues General Yeh Peng admires most. Dr. Skinner's offices are in the riverfront building of Asiatic Petroleum Co., and to that building went a military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...
...with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
Aboard the Capetown a short-sighted watch officer spied the khaki-uniformed soldiers clustered about the building door, quickly reported to his commander. Leaping to the telephone, Captain Budgen called Manager Raeburn of Asiatic Petroleum...