Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Central...
...spoke, at Atlantic City last week, famed Author Booth Tarkington to an able New York Times newsgetter. And further...
...company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed in the merger excitement, it picked up the U. S. & Haiti Cable Co., opening a new line between New York and the West Indies...
...learn the advantages of kerosene lighting, he had stepped in and irreverently undersold Standard, thus filing free U. S. lamps with cheap Royal Dutch kerosene. Well, the old Standard was broken up now ? its pieces, in fact, were all around him: Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury...
...dismembered Standard), Texas Corp. in 1928 sold 26,744,806 barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company (Standard of New York, 1895), has been identified chiefly with the refining end of the oil industry, is co-inventor of the Holmes-Manley process for "cracking" gasoline...