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...Hartebeest a large antelope of Africa. Heete, Dutch for hart (male of red deer); beest, meaning beast...
Albany was celebrating the tercentenary of the first historic landing of the Dutch; Commander Lansdowne delivered a graceful message from President Coolidge to Governor Smith, then piloted his ship swiftly further up state. From the roofs of their office buildings, the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo greeted the vessel with shrill shoutings. To make the voyage still more memorable, Commander Lansdowne descended to an altitude of only 1,200 feet above Niagara Falls. The crew maintained they felt the spray, and for the first time the gigantic waterfall had a dirigible passing over...
...Royal Dutch-Shell oil combine, greatest competitor of the Standard in the international petroleum field, owns oil properties all over the world. In 1919 the Anglo-Dutch group decided to invade the U. S. field in a large way and purchased 130,869 shares of the Union Oil Co., through its subsidiary, the Shell-Union, for about $21,000,000. This, however, constituted only 26% of Union's stock, and Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch, resolved to obtain 51% to control the Company. But several large Union stockholders, alarmed at the foreign invasion, organized the Union...
...bitterness of the fight waged by American oil interests against the Royal Dutch has arisen from the latter's opposition to the entry of U. S. companies into foreign fields which it controls...
...gathering?French, German, Swedish, Mexican, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Canadian, Rumanian, Spanish...