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...Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, and Warren C. Platt, publisher of Platt's Oilgram and National Petroleum News.* To oilmen the sole surprise was that the Government had decided to use for the first time in a big case its power to conduct a criminal rather than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General...
...prices which they sought to and did establish and maintain as the going market prices"; 2) selling gasoline to some 4.000 jobbers under long-term contracts in which the price would be determined by the average of the spot market prices published in the Chicago Journal of Commerce and Platt's Oilgram...
Developed by Dr. Paul W. Emerson, Harvard pediatrician, and Washington Platt of Borden Co., the method is freezing. The milk is drawn from the donors into sterile containers, poured into metal molds kept by dry-ice packing at -109°. In two minutes the milk is frozen solid. It is then sliced into wafers, packed in sterile bottles and stored at -15°. To prepare it for use nothing is necessary but thawing...
James E. Abbe (rhymes with tabby) is a professional U. S. cameraman (free lance) whose curious business and nomadic ways call him from one country to another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight over many a Young Abbe...
...Latin-American policy of the present administration in a series of steps has been admirable. In December, 1933 President Roosevelt invoked the policy of the "good neighbor", opposed to armed intervention. This was followed by the abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even...