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...wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution into 51 foreign lands and into all 48 States (more than any U. S. oil company). Now 59, short, stocky, bulb-nosed Ralph Holmes is known chiefly as a refining man and a bear for work. After Mr. Holmes was boosted into the presidency (by the Laphams...
...innumerable attitudes which have been taken towards the educational avalanche which commences its precipitous descent late in September, there is none, perhaps, more harmful than that which assumes that only an indifferent push is needed to start the mossy stones rolling, and that thereafter the perpetrators of this annual landslide need only sit back and direct the courses which the little stones choose to take...
...receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed of the Rex up higher than a liner had ever steamed before and win for Italy at one stroke the two most coveted Atlantic records-fastest crossing, longest...
...Haven never should have been, Ten thousand Babbitts must live in Stamford. When the eastern sky is saffron, and the west is a slate blue, New York yawns, Banana vendors in Second Avenue push their carts through streets littered with humanity's debris, as Park Avenue tumbles into scented beds. Tugs hoot in the harbor, trains leave, planes arrive, the subway roars and the never ending round feverishly swings toward the stupid frenzied pitch of noon...
...this local push to France's race for transatlantic traffic, President Lebrun was grateful. Last week, stately as King...