Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor considers that Secretary of State Cordell Hull acted with gross misjudgment in persuading the Standard Vacuum Oil Company to cancel the Rickett concession," said the Emperor's spokesman, adding that His Majesty told Mr. Engert hotly: "We need the co-operation of somebody?instead of obstacles, OBSTACLES...
President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum (New York Standard Oil unit): I know absolutely nothing of the reported Ethiopian concession. The African Exploration & Development Company is not affiliated with the Standard Oil Company...
Vice President & Director Henry Dundas of Standard Vacuum Oil (a subsidiary jointly owned by Socony-Vacuum and Standard of New Jersey to handle much of their foreign business): There is absolutely no truth that we are involved in this undertaking...
...conclusive evidence that the President's tax message had started a great gun-beating stampede among the U. S. wealthy. The biggest gifts reported for the four-month period were made before his message: In March John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave away 85,000 shares of Socony-Vacuum Oil valued at $1,090,000; in May Charles S. Woolworth, 20,000 shares of F. W. Woolworth valued at $1,200,000; Frederick B. Rentschler, 20,000 shares of United Aircraft valued at $270,000; Samuel Zemurray, 1,500 shares of United Fruit valued at $130,000. And whether these...
...helped Captain Clayton develop the ship-finder, using a thermocouple. Thermocouples operate on the physical principle that, if two small strips of dissimilar metals are made to form a closed circuit, minute changes in the temperature of the strips set up minute electrical currents, which may be amplified by vacuum tubes and measured. Astronomers use thermocouples to measure the temperatures of stars trillions of miles away...