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...Coop Building in the Square. As early as 8 o'clock in the evening, a crowd gathered outside listening to the returns which were announced over large amplifiers between selection of music. Two radios, reports from the Associated Press, the Hearst papers, and announcements by the Columbia and N.B.C. hook-ups, were being utilized...
Speaker Garner last week was un-muzzled long enough to speak in his own defense. His first campaign speech was delivered over a nationwide radio hook-up from Manhattan. Informal, aggressive, he demonstrated what his 30 years in the House had taught him about political debate...
Most of the industry's big new tankers are Sun-built and the Sun yards turned out the new Seatrains (TIME, Oct. 17) which carry a mile of loaded freight cars. In 1930 the company began operating a gasoline pipe-line from Marcus Hook to Cleveland, running through Pittsburgh and Youngstown and branching north to Syracuse. The company claims to be the first to develop a high grade antiknock gasoline solely through improvement in cracking processes, as contrasted to the addition of chemicals. Sure of the merits of their Sun Oils and Sunoco gasolines, the Pews have never...
...fields have been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery (40,000 bbl. a day), a plant that makes barrels and kegs for Sun and the trade. Shipbuilding yards and big dry-docks are at Chester...
True it is that able Major Woolson, in 1928, designed Gar Wood's four Packard motors. But it was Mr. Wood who developed them. By supercharging he stepped them up to 1.600 h.p. from 770 h.p. And he designed the gear boxes by which he can hook up two motors to each propeller...