Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...losses. C. Bascom Slemp, then a Representative from Virginia, now Secretary to the President, was listed for two transactions, one the sale of 100 shares of Doheny stock for a cousin, P. W. Slemp, the other purchase and sale of 1,000 shares of Mexican Seaboard. Mr. Slemp denied that, in his knowledge, the latter stock was a Sinclair stock, as alleged...
...arrival of Ferdinand, Prince de Joinville, third son of Louis Phillippe of France-and the delighted outcries and social genuflexions of "Society" in all the important cities of the Atlantic seaboard...
...Senate was incited to look into the oil lease matter by the terms of the Teapot Dome lease, some Senators charging that the return to the Government was inadequate. The Government gets a royalty of about 17% on the oil extracted. The oil is refined, delivered to seaboard and placed in tanks built by the Sinclair interests, but belonging to the Navy. For these services the Government yields about two-thirds of its royalty oil to the oil company, so that assuming that there are about 26,000,000 barrels of oil in Teapot Dome, the Government will receive about...
Bolivia is the only South American country without a seaboard. Saavedra, who has been overseas, is regarded by foreigners at the capital as a gracious gentleman, and his unadvanced political methods are the less easily understood...
...immediately adjoining the Canadian border.) Mr. Rea left the conference without public comment. But other railroad officials were less reticent. They declared that freight rates on wheat for export are already less than on wheat for domestic use. Rates per hundredweight on shipments from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard are 30? for domestic consumption and 22½? for export; from St. Louis, 34? for domestic consumption, 26½? for export. It was asserted that the railroads would only lose money by a further increase, and that the farmers actually would not benefit, because there is no foreign market for more...