Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen miles off Pigeon Point, Cal., the San Juan, 2,000 tons, 47 years old, had been rammed by the Standard Oil tanker 5. C. T. Dodd. Of no passengers and crew, only 42 were saved. Next day grim men sat in the U. S. Steamboat Inspector's office at San Francisco. All agreed that: 1) There was dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew...
Despite disagreement and meagre proof of responsibility, the Los Angeles-San Francisco Navigation Co., owners of the San Juan, were quick to file two suits against Standard Oil Co. of California, totaling $1,800,000. Their charge: "Excessive rate of speed in a fog, without keeping the proper lookout or sounding the proper fog signal...
Service Stations. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce at Cleveland last week instituted research on airport gas, oil and parts service stations. Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Indiana and California have organized a Stanavo agency to sell aviation gas and oil at ports. Richfield Oil Co. has built 16 of 35 proposed port stations. Texas Co. is stringing its depots along air routes...
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Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend" that engineers were surveying the properties of both companies, but added happily, "I have no intention of retiring from the oil business...