Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...
...Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., through a $50,000,000 subsidiary (Sinclair Auto Supply Co.) announced plans for the creation of a chain of monster service stations, to sell oil and gasoline in conjunction with everything else a motorist desires. From Davenport, Iowa, to Buffalo these stations will be scattered, each costing $100,000, $250,000 or even more. One of the first, in Cleveland, will cost $300,000 and extend through an entire block...
...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...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health...
...wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland. It was equally edifying...