Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit...
...from other companies. Richfield's buying contracts made other companies think twice about buying Richfield when the time came. Mr. McDuffie, president, last week was made receiver. His bond was set at $3,500,000, a Federal record. He is an experienced oilman who began work in a pipe gang in Coalinga field. In 1910 he went with North American Oil Consolidated, in 1915 with Shell Co. of California. Later he was made production manager of the Royal Dutch-Shell group and given a choice of office in either London or Los Angeles. He chose the latter...
Leon F. Rains, first vice president of Columbia Steel Corp., Pacific Coast unit of United States Steel Corp., resigned to succeed the late Addison H. Beale as president of A. M. Byers Co., iron-pipe specialists...
...Cracking." The Dubbs patents were based upon one type of a process of refining crude oil known as "cracking the molecules." The heavy oil is pumped through a steel-pipe coil, the interior of which is kept at about 900° F. heat and under great pressure. Dubbs's invention: making the oil compress itself. Suddenly this heated and compressed oil passes into an insulated chamber. There it breaks down into gasoline. The latest Dubbs "cracking" unit will convert 3,000 bbl. of oil per day, making 60% or more high-test antiknock motor fuel...
...year, As long as Tom Marshall remained with us here, And then came Coolidge, so silent, yet plain. Quoth he: "Lads must eat, so let's choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told of the dinner which custom decreed He promptly assented and ordered a feed. . . . So it came to pass that when Dawes went away A friend of the pages, Charles Curtis, held sway...