Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand for nitrophoska," exulted Herr Doktor...
...India Sir Henri has used gang tactics for abusing Standard Oil. His English Shell Transport relations have brought him British government aid. Indian duties against Standard oil are higher than against Royal Dutch-Shell...
...Shell" Transport & Trading for ?43,000,000 ($215,000,000 approximately). Thus the combined capital of the Royal Dutch-Shell group is very close to $450,000,000. Capital of the Standard...
...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...
Said a letter to the Boeing Air Transport Co. which is building a huge plane for service between Oakland, Calif., and Chicago: "I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University and I am very much interested in commercial aviation. I would like very much to get a job on one of your planes as a messenger boy or page...