Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese bandits cheerfully take pot shots at almost any foreign vessel plying the yellow waters of the Yangtze-kiang. But never will they fire on a ship of Mei Foo (Standard Oil Co. of New York, now-one of the two operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...
Into the Conference vacuum, created when the President forcibly removed the issue of immediate currency stabilization, the Administration was evidently trying to insert a world program of industrial control, increases in wages and commodity prices similar to its domestic plan. To what level domestic or world prices should be raised, the White House would not say. But at his first postvacation Press conference, the President intimated under his breath that a desirable domestic price level would be that of 1924-25, much to the surprise of observers who understood that 1926, a bit more prosperous, had been picked...
...eagle in flight, and named Century of Progress. (Mattern's backers were H. B. Jameson and Hayden R. Mills of Chicago.) A big, blond, curly-headed Texan, onetime trapdrummer, seasoned pilot, Mattern was in the pink of condition. Besides a half dozen oranges he carried two gaily painted vacuum bottles of hot water given him by Artist George Luks. One was labeled "Happy," the other "Landings," "See you in a week," were his parting words...
...Socony Vacuum Corp. Bandoeng, Java...
...agitated state of the oil business was otherwise illustrated last week: ¶ Socony-Vacuum omitted its 10? quarterly dividend, cut salaries 10%. ¶ Standard Oil of California cut its 30? quarterly dividend in half and cut salaries. ¶ Oil prices in the East Texas field were upped by some companies from the 10? a bbl. of the week before to 25? a bbl., but at the same time they cut prices in other fields of Texas and neighboring States from around...