Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. Carl C. Walker, operator of a prayer tabernacle, left town without paying his divorced wife's alimony. Mrs. Walker went to the tabernacle, seized 193 chairs, a vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator, a grand piano, a xylophone, a shotgun, offered them for sale. The congregation paid the alimony to get the church furnishings back...
...many potent clients- among them Radio Corp., Timken Oil Burner, Studebaker Motors, Westinghouse Electric, Cleveland Tractor, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner, Detroit Aircraft, Koken Barber Supply, Hudson Motors, Majestic Radio, Petroleum Heat & Power...
Standard. The hearings in the Government's suit to restrain Standard Oil Co. of New York from merging with Vacuum Oil Co. (TIME, March 3 et seq.) reached an end last week in Manhattan. Vacuum Director Harold F. Sheets, the last witness, analyzed world petroleum production in 1929. According to his figures. Royal Dutch Shell was far in the lead with 175,992,000 bbl., with Standard of New Jersey second (101,100,000 bbl.). Socony and Vacuum combined were down in sixth place (57,986.000 bbl.). In daily refinery capacity he put Standard of New Jersey first...
During the taking of testimony, Harold F. Sheets, an oldtime Vacuum official, sketched the history of the oil industry since 1911, when the Standard of New Jersey trust was dissolved. In 1907 Standard of New Jersey handled 82% of U. S. petroleum business, and in that year there was not a single gasoline filling station in New York City. Standard Oil was then mostly household kerosene and machine oils, and Standard had an unchallenged monopoly. In 1904 (when Standard of New Jersey made a $62,000,000 profit) there were only 55,000 automobiles registered, 6.908.000 bbl. of gasoline produced...
...Forest, President of the Institute of Radio Engineers and vice president of General Talking Picture Co., vacuum tube inventor, announced he would move his research laboratory to Hollywood on Jan. 1. Said he: "In Hollywood I expect to do better work and more...