Word: tampico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Beach, Calif., the lo-Dow Chemical Co. produces a substantial per centage of all U. S. iodine. At Tulsa, Okla., Tampico, Mexico and other oil-producing areas subsidiaries process oil and gas wells to make them more productive. At Bay City, Mich., 18 mi. from Midland on Lake Huron, Dow now makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...
Thus Joseph Mason Reeves, native of Tampico, Ill. first displayed gallantry in Naval action. Four years later he was a lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the Oregon when under forced draft that famed warship made her record run from San Francisco around Cape Horn to arrive just in time for the Battle of Santiago. For "eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle" he was advanced four numbers in rank...
...another hurricane sprang from Honduras last week, snaked round the Caribbean, then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed to ride the gale came the first reports. The German tanker Kiel flashed: '"Most immense tragedy. Impossible to imagine extent. Those parts of city not destroyed by wind now ten to fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains...
...When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude in fast enough, you never heard much about Sun Oil Co. If it was mentioned at the Tulsa Club, where engineers in khaki pants and tall boots fingered field maps with bankers in tailor-made clothes, people were inclined to smile...