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Before his stockholders gave him a rising vote of thanks last week, Mr. Teagle gave his stockholders a valedictory thumbnail sketch of Standard's growth during his administration. Having already reported 1936 profits of $97,000,000, Mr. Teagle noted: "The basis of our business is crude oil. In the year preceding my election our interests produced 9,658,000 bbl. In the year for which you have just had a report our production was 206,356,000 bbl. In 1916 our share of the total world production was less than 2%. Last year...
...Beruete from 1801 to 1808. The age of the sitter, the costume and the manner of wearing the hair, the similarity in style to others of that time, all point toward those years. In its summary technique and its candor of statement, its closest parallel is a fine sketch done in 1805 of Mocarte...
...commemorate the anniversary last fall, a section has been given over to the Tercentenary. An historical sketch by Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian, is inset with small cuts, from Harvard's past, followed by an account of the Tercentenary Days by John B. Bowditch '37, which is framed by bleed-off panels of scenes from the celebration...
...Mary had been in a motor accident in New Jersey. Said Father Divine: "If anyone sides with her, the same curse shall fall on their heads as has fallen on hers. They shall go down with her. Her sins have brought her fall. But this was just a slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were...
...appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing...