Word: prosperities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlets for oil are growing not only satisfactorily but more rapidly than was expected. Chief among the signs is that Prairie Oil & Gas has just resumed dividends, after a lapse of two years. Producing companies bear the brunt of the losses in times of overproduction. When they begin to prosper the industry is looking up. The price trend for gasoline during the summer months has been slightly higher, again a token contrary to overproduction, although it must be discounted because of seasonal demand. Finally there may be some additional demand for oil in China if that country goes...
...necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management of the annex property...
Round 3. President Edward G. Seubert and the directors of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana voted unanimously to support Col. Stewart, asked stockholders to do the same. The majority of employe-stock-holders are supporting Col. Stewart, either because they feel that he has made the company prosper or because they fear for their jobs. Standard Oil of Indiana profits for 1928 were estimated at $80,000,000, or about $9 a share. At the end of this round, Col. Stewart was a 2 to 1 betting favorite...
...might have learned that Founder Eugene Grasselli's family had been chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...
...order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon the Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...