Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon saw that at least two-thirds of the P. C. C. frankly favored price-fixing, that only one, President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp.* was a die-hard freemarketer...
...three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded as a vested right their power to set the price for the whole industry, were muted...
...Standard Oil Co. of New York formally adopted its trade name when it merged with Vacuum Oil two years ago. Other Standard trade names derived from corporate titles are Stanolind (Standard of Indiana), Sohio (Standard of Ohio), Stanco (Standard of New Jersey). Other Standard companies might use these...
...point of eccentricity. General Francesco de Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam...
...Chinese markets, but a large part of the production was shut in. Socony meantime was buying Russian oil for India, shipping kerosene from the U. S. Oilmen have long wondered why Jersey and Socony did not forge a closer hookup. The question became more pointed after Socony merged with Vacuum Oil two years ago, adding Australia and New Zealand to Socony-Vacuum Corp.'s Pacific empire. Last week it was learned that Jersey's Teagle and Socony-Vacuum's Pratt were finally hammering out the legal bumps in a plan to merge their Far Eastern properties into...