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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest. See the jolly tar, fresh from his ship, spinning tales of the deep blue sea." These sights van'she 1 when Oregon went...
Archbishop of Canterbury, made known that he will visit the Holy Land next month; also Athens, to see Mgr. Chrysostom Papadopoulos, Metropolitan of the Greek Church. Dr. Lang will travel on the Corsair, 304 ft. yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan...
This Monday, while oil-drilling "wildcatters" were digesting the significance of President Hoover's oil conservation policy (see p. 16), Thomas B. Slick, the king of all "wildcatters," credited with being the largest individual oil operator in the world, completed the sale of all his producing lands to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. These properties-cream of the Seminole, Kay, Kansas, and North Texas fields-yield 34,000 barrels a day, and will bring Prairie's gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between...
...interest to all businessmen, of vital im portance to oilmen, was President Hoover's an nounced decision, last week, to allow no further private development of U. S. -owned oil lands (see...
Elected. Lewis H. Brown, 35, of Pelham, N. Y., assistant to the president of Johns-Manville Corp.; to be president, succeeding the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles (see...