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...Petrol Pumps including parts thereof

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Absolute Embargo | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Hoover has said, statistics carefully cooked by the League of Nations are hurled at our heads enumerating peace establishments, which mean nothing. . . . The League is in danger of failure, through being run by flapdoodlers! It has done nothing but sit for ten years. It is the old question of petrol [gasoline] without a machine. There's nothing left of the League today but perfume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...building up the company's tremendous export field. When Standard was dissolved in 1911, Mr. Teagle (a vice president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Oil Compromise | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...nationally-advertised trade mark of an Empire gasoline called "British Petrol." Also "B. P." is what Boy Scouts the world over call their jovial, snowy-whiskered Chief Scout, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. Last week the 50,000 Scouts who have been attending an international "jamboree" (Scoutese for convention) at Birkenhead, England (TIME, Aug. 12) broke camp and prepared to disperse to their homes in 50 nations with a message from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...THANKFUL. Free advice to Motorists and Aviators. Stop swearing. Stop wasting petrol. Stop murdering batteries and bruising knuckles. Start your engines the recognized correct way with the KIGASS PETROL MIST INJECTOR. Descriptive Brochure free.? KIGASS, 120, Great Portland-street, W.I. Fit and be thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: England's Agony | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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