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But most noteworthy Republican event of the week took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intimations of Grandeur | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Geologically, the situation is simple. Oil is taken out of off-shore pools by building piers or artificial islands and drilling downward (which is likely to ruin the beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Troubled Waters | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Two months ago, the Legislature passed a bill that was Mr. Merriam's personal solution of the problem. It provided for a State Lands Commission to receive bids; but because it prohibited all drilling except by whip-stocking, the chief company that could submit bids was Standard Oil. Culbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Troubled Waters | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

FOLLOWING the lead of women participants at a meeting at Vassar during the winter who tore off their silk stocking in a protest against the use of Japanese goods, a group of Seniors have started a petition asking that the Class Day Committee abandon the use of Japanese lanterns, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boycott Business | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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