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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land in the Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana's President Edward George Seubert was thinking of these properties when he said: "There has been a strong trend away from the traditional policy of free importation of oil, and sooner or later it is likely that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...take out insurance if you are a chronic explorer." Dr. Dickey states that the appearance of a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation is "invariably the signal, about anywhere from Panama to Patagonia, for the small proprietors of land to register their properties as potential deposits of petroleum." Col. Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Speaks Dickey | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...will become members in a new firm. The newly merged firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, second largest wire house, continued its expansion by acquiring the business and offices of Moyse & Barry, Stock Exchange members who became inactive Jan. 1. Indiana-Nitag. Should a tariff be placed upon petroleum and its products, hard hit would be Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, big importer. Last week Indiana expanded its foreign markets by acquiring a large interest in Germany's N I T A G (Naphtha Industrie und Tankanlagen Aktiengesellschaft) for $1,100,000. Nitag, a distributing company, handles 420.000 bbl. of petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Hulera Mexicana, newly organized to make synthetic rubber. In January the company will have a factory ready to produce 400 motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with sulphur.* Compania Hulera Mexicana is capitalized at $115,000, has for directors sub-Secretary of War General Abelardo Rodriquez, Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...taurine whoops generally greeted any company's offer of rights to buy new securities. This year has seen a reverse trend. Electric Power & Light shares dropped sharply last month, when the company sought to raise $21,000,000 from stockholders. Simms Petroleum made the unique gesture of offering stockholders rights to sell 12½% of their holdings back to the company at a price level with the market. And last week when Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. announced plans to raise much-needed cash from its stockholders there were angry mumblings, threats of legal action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: RKO Assessment | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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