Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years is obviously one he had no hand in. He knew stinging poverty, quit college four years ago, worked as a gas station and cigar store attendant, attended night classes at DePauw now takes small part in re-making the world as is possible by but a Socialist. Still poor, James T. Farrell is charming, generous, and a clear thinking, clear seeing writers...
...Citizens of Aberdeen, embittered because King Edward, instead of opening their new hospital, met Mrs. Simpson at their railway station on her visit to Scotland (TIME, Oct. 5), chalked Aberdeen streets with the John Knoxian exhortation: "Down with the American Harlot...
...discuss such station-house matters as Atlas Tack that President Roosevelt summoned Messrs. Landis & Eccles last week. As was later revealed at a White House press conference, President Roosevelt was deeply concerned over the amount of foreign capital now invested in the U. S., particularly the large sums of timorous money which have sought temporary refuge in Manhattan and might be repatriated at an embarrassing rate should confidence be restored abroad. Both SEC and the Federal Reserve Board, said the President, were studying how to control this "hot" money by legislation...
...Iowa law forced the oil companies to make a radical change in their marketing methods. The companies simply got out of the retail business. To filling station operators they offered leases which made them, overnight, independent businessmen. Spreading rapidly into other States where rigorous chain legislation was in force or in prospect, the Iowa Plan became a national transformation. Beginning last January, great Standard Oil of New Jersey leased or sold 2,000 of its 2,500 company-owned Esso stations. Continental Oil disposed of every one of its 1,276 stations. Phillips Petroleum retained only six stations as training...
...Institute meeting last week came tall, bespectacled Wilmer R. Schuh, 34, of Milwaukee, with a white carnation in his lapel and blunt words about the response of filling station men to the Iowa plan. Mr. Schuh is president of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers, which was formed under NRA, includes more than 50,000 of the 170,000 filling station owners in the U. S. Mr. Schuh's principal job since the Iowa Plan was adopted has been to quell price wars among the new independents. Said...