Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...integrated companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corporation, Gulf Oil), this is not vital. If their refining operations show a loss, it is merely a bookkeeping matter provided that their crude oil production is efficient, shows a greater profit, for they still have net earnings. To Consolidated Oil which has to buy approximately half the crude oil it refines-and to other refiners without their own crude oil supply-the difference between the prices of crude and of gasoline is serious...
...what a human being can do by channeling all his time and talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time for women, has never married...
...fliers just flew, Glenn Martin barnstormed to find out how to make better flying machines. Almost as soon as he learned to fly he began manufacturing planes in Santa Ana. He opened a factory in Los Angeles in 1912, from which he sold planes to the U. S. Army, still one of his best customers. For seven years, sobersided Martin, half pilot, half industrialist, whizzed around the country, flying to finance manufacturing...
...early passengers was Minta Martin, whom he took ,up precariously perched on the leading edge of the lower wing. Another was Cinemactress Mary Pickford, for whom he played the villain in The Girl of Yesterday, renting himself and his plane for $700 a day. Still another was Musicomedienne Valeska Suratt, who planted three kisses on his cheek after he landed her in front of a crowd in Los Angeles. Blushing Martin ran away, later told newsmen soberly "her air conduct was good...
When Martin goes to Manhattan with his mother, he stays over to see a show or two, any kind just so he's sure it's likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...