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Word: texaco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bond salesmen, already excited by signs of a real revival of activity in the bond market, there was tossed last week the biggest single bond issue since 1926. It was $100,000,000 of 5% convertible debentures of the famed Texas ("Texaco") Co. Just as the big 1926 issue of $120,000,000 of 5% Standard Oil Co. of N. J. bonds was oversubscribed immediately, so last week's Texas offering was sold between its release in the late afternoon and 10 o'clock the next morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Issue | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York ) opened hostilities by announcing the price cut "to equalize its prices with that of other dealers in the field." Sinclair and Beacon Oil (subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey) promptly followed suit without comment. Texaco and Shell merely remarked that they were adjusting their prices to those of their competitors. Gulf, Tidewater, Pure Oil and others followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again, Socony v. Shell | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...hope that the 1928 production figure will hold for 1930 and 1931 as well as for the present year. Head of the General Conservation Committee which worked out the A. P. I. program is Ralph Clinton Holmes, President of Texas Corp. (Texaco products). A potent and rapidly growing "independent" (i.e., not a fragment of the dismembered Standard), Texas Corp. in 1928 sold 26,744,806 barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Texas Corp. (Texaco gasoline and oil helped Capt. Hawks & Mechanic Grubb break coast-to-coast flight record): $45,073,879 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Fuel: Texaco aviation gasoline and oil. (Capt. Hawks is employed by the Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hawks & Grubb | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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