Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government last week rested its case to prevent the merger of Vacuum Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. of New York, both offspring of the oldtime huge Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Vacuum and Standard reasons for merger are that they must face severe competition in New England and New York from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch Shell Oil. Testimony showed that Shell's 1929 sales in the district were 7,175,241 bbl. of 42 gal. each. Combined Standard and Vacuum 1929 sales in the same district were more than...
...year it sold 23%. Instead of gloomily contemplating this loss of dominance, last week Socony gladly told about it. The reason: to show the U. S. Government that oil conditions have vastly changed since the old Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey was dissolved in 1911, that Socony and Vacuum Oil Co., both units of the former trust, may now legally merge...
...important point revealed by another witness was that he had sold Socony and Vacuum products ir competition...
Thus, with confusing and contradictory testimony, began what may be the most important corporate trial of the year. Only one point seems certain so far: that if Standard Oil of New York and Vacuum do merge, it will not be this year...
...died, she had grown into the habit of being a recluse. Hypersensitive about venturing into the unreal daily world, she finally would not address her many letters, had her sister do it for her, or else pasted printed addresses on the envelopes. Though she seemed to live in a vacuum, says Biographer Taggard: "We think it now the busiest spot in the 19th Century...