Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...
...great field for this is the Barco concession in Colombia, which Texas acquired jointly with Socony-Vacuum (TIME, May 4). The other is in the Middle and Far East...
...distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal Dutch Shell and the Socony-Vacuum-Standard-of-New Jersey combination...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...
Last autumn Carib Syndicate, Ltd. informed its stockholders it had received a $2,000,000 offer from an undisclosed group for its 21% interest in the fabulous Barco oil concession. Since little Carib did not have the money to play along with its big partners, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp., in development of the jungle oil properties in Colombia, the stockholders authorized their directors to accept the offer (TIME...