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...gasoline. Many of these, impressed by the fact that Socony usually is the first to change a price, felt sure it was dominant. Some stated that there was restraint of trade, that if they cut the price of gasoline no company would sell to them. Others testified no such fate would befall. Witness L. S. Hall, Gulf retailer in Concord, N. H., and the counsel for the defense went into a long discussion of Royal Dutch-Shell's activities. Asked whether he did not know that Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania was perhaps second in size only to Royal...
Four strange French children-Paul, his sister Elizabeth, their friends Agatha and Gerard-and a wealthy American Jew are placed by Author Cocteau in a scene bathed in a curious, unreal melancholy. Of Paul and Elizabeth, two orphans whose fate is to live thoroughly naive and irresponsible lives, the story chiefly concerns itself...
History. First recorded experiments with helicopters were made by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who made four models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner...
...working in these cells living in the exuberant slime of the marketplace, working changes in them like electro-magnetism altering the composition of molecules. Then the picture seems great, with the pressure and pulse of a tremendous story. But the promise of the early development is never realized. The fate of the characters is indecisive; the rebellion that has stirred them dies out in action of steadily diminishing vitality, adulterated with the propaganda-ingredient which is as inevitable in current Soviet films as the trademark of any commercial product, and of about the same artistic importance. Still, in spite...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...