Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have had "no weapons except their household furniture." The Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum plant at Safed was reported burnt out, gutted. Despatches estimated Jewish dead at 22, mentioned no Moslem casualties...
Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York ) opened hostilities by announcing the price cut "to equalize its prices with that of other dealers in the field." Sinclair and Beacon Oil (subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey) promptly followed suit without comment. Texaco and Shell merely remarked that they were adjusting their prices to those of their competitors. Gulf, Tidewater, Pure Oil and others followed...
...Sinclair plan is but a symptom of a major movement in the industry: to sell more oil, more cheaply. Master service stations of various types are already erected or projected by Standard Oil of Ohio, Beacon Oil Co., Pierce Petroleum Co., even by Firestone Tire Co. (TIME, Aug. 19). Shell Union Oil Co. recently obtained $40,000,000 by new financing to enlarge its service station outlets...
...this war-time communique: "Our Grand Fleet today engaged the enemy at 3.000 yards off Ambrose Light, silenced their battery fire, levelled the defenses and destroyed New York. At 7:12 our bombing squadron dropped 50 bombs on the lower harbor and their air reconnaisance aided materially in governing shell fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort Hancock by the destruction of its observation and control towers and then, sweeping aside a mine field and under cover of low visibility, come close enough to pound...
...shell was extended. This helped somewhat, but freaks of tone were still audible to a sensitive ear. Evidently the problem was scientific, beyond a musician's province. Conductor Fiedler might have abandoned the shell and tried electric amplification. But this method, with its rasps and harsh distortions, does not please true musicians. At length he consulted Dr. W. R. Barss, professor of acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...