Word: petros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest of all time) is a mighty line-without which no back can sparkle. If Pitt's dream backfield of Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo is rated on a par with the famed Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Pitt's line- Daddio, Merkovsky, Lezouski, Dannies, Petro, Raskowski, Hoffman-may be favorably compared with Fordham's recent Seven Blocks of Granite, or any other publicized bulwark of the past...
Then light-molecule hydrocarbons like gasoline can be distilled off, as in the some-what similar process of "cracking" petro- leum. Germany produced about 300,000 tons of motor fuel by coal-hydrogenation last year; 500.000 tons is a likely figure for this year. Last year England's Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. completed a hydrogenation plant of 150,000 tons annual capacity. In the U. S., which produces oceans of oil, the commercial process has not got under...
Buddy and Marcia, manager and editor of the Douglaston Weekly, filed suit against Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Co. of Jamaica for nonpayment of an $182 advertising account (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Justice Thomas C. Kadien Jr. in Jamaica Municipal Court awarded judgment to the plaintiffs. The oil company had contended that its representative, one Charles Matthews, was without authority to contract for advertising. But Justice Kadien ruled the company responsible, inasmuch as it was aware of the appearance of the advertisement for 14 consecutive issues yet made no effort to cancel...
...Jamaica (L. I.) Municipal Court last week Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, n, sat facing a row of executives of Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Oil Co. of Jamaica. The oil executives were defendants. Buddy, as part owner and business manager of the Douglaston Weekly (his sister, Marcia, 12, is editor) was plaintiff, suing for $182 payment for advertising. Editor Bacon testified that a Mr. Matthews, erstwhile Petro salesman, asked to take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty...