Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England, and in and around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although a Royal-Dutch-Shell subsidiary, is third largest U. S. oil producer, Shell Gasoline represented foreign competition in a particularly acute form. Most of the Shell Gasoline has been imported from Venezuela whence it can be sold in the U. S. at prices difficult for U. S. oilmen to duplicate...
...oilmen were chiefly interested in the perennial problem of overproduction. When 1929 began, there were in storage 625,000,000 barrels of crude oil, representing excess of production over consumption. Production during 1929 totaled about 200,000 barrels a day over consumption, so that at the end of the third quarter the 600,000,000 barrel excess had increased to 675,000,000 barrels, or about enough for eight months consumption. During 1928 oil wells produced about 900,000,000 barrels; during 1929 the production will reach an even billion...
...late great Walter Camp. Now each U. S. newspaper has its Camp, its All-American team. Notre Dame's big schedule of games in many parts of the U. S. gave numerous critics a chance to see the Carideo work. Quarterback Saunders of Southern California caught the third period kick-off and went back 22 yards. Then he signaled the ball to himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington...
...Twenty-third annual convention of Life Insurance Presidents in Manhattan...
...will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus in the other, each embodying different aspects of love; nearly pure, therefore undeluded, but quite inefficient, in the first; pitying in the second; possessive in the third...