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...called because they have no connection with any interstate gas pipelines. Some well-known "independents": Shell Oil Co., Phillips Petroleum Co. and Sun Oil Co. Some well-knojwn parerrts of other "independents": Standard Oil (N.J.), Standard Oil (Ind.) and Sooony-Vacuum...
...York's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. joined with Powell Duffryn, Ltd., Britain's largest coal firm, to build a $30 million oil refinery in Coryton, England. Under the deal, Socony sold a half-interest in its British subsidiary. Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., to Powell Duffryn, in exchange for ?3,500.000 ($9,800,000) and the refinery site. Socony has put $3,000,000 in new capital into Vacuum Oil, will loan it $2,800,000 more to help start up refining operations. The deal will permit Socony to sell refined products in the sterling area despite Britain...
...watchman's main objection to men's antics in the Quad is that young people in the Radcliffe area might be influenced by strange doings. "They're like vacuum cleaners, they pick up things as they go along, and young kids who don't know what's going on get into trouble," Purtell noted...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...
Alsdorf quit the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce as a sophomore in 1933, took a selling job with his father's A. J. Alsdorf Corp., one of Chicago's oldest export businesses. Among their exports was the vacuum coffeemaker made by Cory Corp., then a small company run by Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends...