Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
...meeting to arrange a merger between Royal Dutch Shell Oil and Standard Oil of New Jersey. And, for good measure, even the Anglo-Persian company might be included in the breath-taking consolidation...
Eight oarsmen and a coxswain from the University of California smashed the Olympic record for 2,000 metres in the semifinals, then pulled a little more than half a length ahead of the shell of the Thames Rowing Club (London) to win the most important rowing event of the IXth Olympiad. Followed a U.S. victory in the majority of the water events, with Martha Norelius, Albina Ossipowitch, Helen Meany, George Kojac, Pete Desjardines, John Weissmuller as kingpins...
...Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...