Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicative of the manner in which the State Department serves pur country's interests, that is by pending one of its most able men to a place where he's not needed, then it would appear that the time was ripe for our Chief Executive to use a vacuum cleaner on said Department...
...Salomon Brothers & Hutzler unceremoniously ditched this ancient underwriting tradition, marketed $43,000,000 of Swift & Co. bonds on a straight commission basis. Total selling cost for Swift & Co. was $172,000. Last week Salomon Brothers & Hutzler again startled their fellow bankers by selling $50,000,000 of 3½% Socony-Vacuum Corp. bonds for a commission of four-tenths of 1% or $200,000. Fortnight before, Kuhn, Loeb underwrote a $50,000,000 Pennsylvania Co. issue for 2 ½%?a relatively low "spread" for underwriting. Total cost...
...When the State Department reopened on Tuesday snowy-crested Secretary Hull called in Washington correspondents to tell them that he still did not know who was behind Promoter Rickett. Few minutes earlier, unknown to Mr. Hull, Vice President Dundas and his chief, Board Chairman George S. Walden of Standard Vacuum Oil, had sent in their cards to Chief Wallace Murray of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked out the window that in Ethiopia it must be raining too. Putting...
...callers coughed and looked expectantly at the other as they sat down. "Uh-hm! Mr. Murray, I am Mr. Walden, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Vacuum, and this is our Vice President, Mr. Dundas...
...year Mr. Francis M. Rickett of London approached us on the possibilities of negotiating on our behalf a petroleum exploration and development agreement with the Kingdom of Ethiopia. After considerable discussion with Mr. Rickett, it seemed probable that he might be able to secure a concession, whereupon the Standard Vacuum Oil Company organized a corporation in Delaware known as the African Exploration & Development Corporation . . . to acquire such concession when granted...