Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...suggest purchasing land that has been previously tried and given up. In this fashion Doherty interests developed into rich fields the Little River, Bowlegs, Seminole and Oklahoma City pools. Last week, while No. 1 Mary Sudik was still spouting, Manhattan newspapers revealed that Cities Service has again followed this method by acquiring a 51% option on North European Oil Corp. Although there was no new item to justify printing the report last week, accounts told what had been in the April issue of Fortune three weeks ago: Germany has produced some oil, mostly from surface drilling; North European...
Advantages pointed out for the new method, over the pressure method devised by the ancient Chinese: no great expense for initial plant installation, no expert labor required, low maintenance cost. The resulting oil is purer than that recovered by other methods, and the residue in the vats makes an almost predigested cattle food, superior to the "cake" derived by other methods...
...dramas which rigidly observed, if indeed they did not extol, the principles of virtuous conduct. Now he appears as a chin-whiskered but frisky California lawyer who arrives in Manhattan bent on giving his wife grounds 'for divorce (among other things, she demolished his excellent wine cellar). His method involves a hotel room and a hired trollop, with whom he retires in full view of the audience. The farcical exploits of a crew of blackmailers nearly cause things to go askew, but Mr. Hodge at length avoids the dilemmas which, as playwright, he has devised for himself. That portion...
...believes that all schools should be state-supplied, "democratic," that today's private schools are unsatisfactory. Sir Michael prefaced his remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method and philosophy in both hemispheres . . . [its yearbooks] the best telescope through which the student can now sweep into his vision the educational changes of the world...
Last week a corporation devised a different method of patent-distribution by inviting its entire industry to benefit in its patent process. The corporation i, Standard of New Jersey, Rockefeller jewel; the process is the manufacture of gasoline by hydrogenation (the combination of hydrogen with carbon to form the gasoline hydro carbon). The process is jointly owned by Standard of New Jersey and the I. G". Farbenindustrie, commonly known as the German Dye Trust. Standard and I. G. Farbenindustrie have planned to organize a subsidiary company which will pay them a royalty for the U. S. rights to the process...