Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dodsworth was adapted by Sidney Howard from his own dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' novel, directed with a proper understanding of its values by William Wyler, splendidly cast and brilliantly played...
...Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water Oil Co., President Jacob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Co., President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Corp., President William G. Skelly of Skelly Oil Co. Also indicted were Keith Fanshier, petroleum editor...
...shores of Minnesota's Lake Minnewaska is a little town called Glenwood, which is 26 miles west of Sauk Center, birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. Glenwood is also near Cottonwood, birthplace of the first U. S. oil & gas cooperative. Because Cottonwood could not accommodate a convention which observed the 15th anniversary of the founding of its filling station, because Minnesota is the most co-operative State in the Union and because International Co-Operative Day falls on the first Saturday in July, Glenwood played host last week to nearly all the leading cooperators...
...market over its previous high. Westinghouse Electric raised its annual rate ($3 to $4). Young Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. declared a 25? payment, its first in five years, and Texas Pacific Coal & Oil a 25? payment, its first in more than eight years. Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil went on a regular 60? annual basis with promises of extras. U. S. Smelting & Refining raised its periodic payments from...
...Since Sinclair Lewis mentions. Rotary and Kiwanis by name in Babbitt, the "Boosters' Club," to which George F. Babbitt belonged, was apparently meant to be a local chapter of Lions International. The "Boosters" might also be taken for Civitans, another, though much smaller, businessmen's organization devoted to songs, luncheons, community service and mutual backscratching. General belief is that the Civitans take in those who cannot make the Lions; the Lions those who do not make Kiwanis; and Kiwanis those who fail to make Rotary, which is the spiritual father of them all. Last week Rotary assembled...