Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blast and how to trim their sales to it, were neglecting for the moment their interests in literature of the permanent kind, but farseeing publishers noted one provocative fact in the publishing history of World War I. Buried in the lists were first books of such unknowns as Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson...
Labor's Arthur Greenwood jumped up. He was cheered for 30 seconds. An act of aggression was committed 38 hours ago, he said. Why was Britain waiting? Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair urged action. It was, said a correspondent, the 59th second of the 59th minute of the final hour...
Last week Consolidated Oil made its semiannual report, and by that time Harry Sinclair was hopping mad. For the first half of 1938 Consolidated had turned in a neat net of $4,000,341. But for the first half of 1939, it had a deficit of $872,671. With the report Harry Sinclair made another bitter statement: "I think the industry has served the public extremely well, but it is serving itself very badly...
Next day, having failed to up the price of gasoline, Harry Sinclair turned to his May alternative: Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Co., another Consolidated subsidiary, cut its posted buying price for crude oil 20? a barrel...
This time Harry Sinclair's leadership was followed. Standard of New Jersey's marketing subsidiary, Humble Oil & Refining Co., cut its posted prices 5? to 32?. Cities Service and Bell Oil & Gas cut 20?, like Sinclair. Standard of Indiana was expected to follow...