Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Standard Oil of New York. President Herbert Lee Pratt of Standard of N. Y., as is his habit in controversy, said nothing. He was waiting, his office announced last week, for the return from Europe of Charles Evans Hughes who advises him on trade relations with the Russian Soviets. Despite this announcement, President Pratt sailed with his family on the Aquitania last week for a holiday on a grouse moor which he has rented in Scotland...
Royal Dutch-Shell. But President Whaley's statement was sufficient for Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell. Since his companies could not monopolize Russian oil production, he has been disparaging Soviet oil. British retailers of such Russian oil have had to undergo price-cutting, trade repressions. The London Daily Mail, notably, has badgered them mercilessly...
...Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...Vacuum and Standard of New York state the truth, namely, that, as they fancy it pays them better to deal in cheap Russian oil, they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly...
...Power of Darkness. The Moscow Art Theatre actors portray in cinema based on Tolstoi's drama the slow writhing of Russian peasants in the shackles of ignorance under the bludgeoning of Fate. Whether drunk, sober, at home in their hovels, or on the icy road to Siberia, the characters always convey the tragedy of aspiration groping under a clod...