Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some such plan for the limitation of oil production in western States was expected to be worked out at the meeting of Governors, U. S. officials and leaders of the oil industry called for June 10 at Colorado Springs by President Hoover. The object is to contrive an agreement which will be in restraint of overproduction but not in restraint of trade...
...Munich. In 1885 he came to the U. S. Two years later he married Mary Elizabeth Owens of Cincinnati, by whom he has two daughters, two sons. For 30 years sugar refining was his interest. He was director of the American and Spreckels Sugar Refining Companies, of Great Western Sugar Co. In 1916 he retired to devote his time to chemical research. Magic is his chief hobby. He has been a modern Merlin since the age of 12. At table, if he wishes, he can keep plates spinning furiously-an old Chinese pastime...
...decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office in the Bank of Italy's Los Angeles building...
...Manhattan air men last week reported that a Mid-Continent Air Express was being organized to operate between Chicago and New Orleans. They said that President Harris M. Hanshue of Fokker Aircraft Corp. was back of the project; also Chairman James Talbot of Richfield Oil Co., Western Air Express and Fokker. Supposedly Mid-Continent would tie up with Western and Standard Air Lines...
...refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal Co.; by 1912 he was sales manager. Soon he left Pittsburgh Coal Co., founded Cleveland & Western Coal Co. By 1926 his coal company, now North American Coal Corp.. was world's largest producer of tonnage...