Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierce & Co. took over the brokerage business of Merrill, Lynch & Co., the firm acquired, in addition to a wire system, a large retail sales and stock commission organization and entered investment banking on a large scale. It had previously participated in some offerings (Phelps-Dodge, Curtiss Airports, Petroleum Corp.), but never before was a large factor in distributing securities. To some Wall Streeters this recent vigorous expansion has suggested that E. A. Pierce & Co. cash-rich, is taking advantage of bargains. Other observers believe that little cash has been used. They say that E. A. Pierce & Co. has merely paid...
Midcontinent Petroleum...
...Convention of the American Petroleum Institute; at Chicago...
...Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks to supply the Diesel-engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous is declining, but expansion of the fishing...
Agar is used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology because it keeps its form at higher temperatures than gelatin. Petroleum-agar, a familiar household intestinal lubricant, contains the substance in small quantities. It is useful in the making of glue, transparent silk, paper...