Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winning shell was manned as follows: Stroke, Locke; 7, Brooks; 6, Erickson; 5, Gardiner; 4, Chace; 3, Senior; 2, McVickar; Bow, McVeigh; Cox, White...
Last week Japanese censors in Manchukuo held up for several days but finally passed news that early next year the Oil Monopoly will: 1) banish from Manchukuo the familiar cans of Standard Oil, Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...
Keen traders and not oversensitive, Dutchmen know well enough that to a foreigner almost anything written in their language looks unpronounceable or worse. As a matter of business the company which sells their Shell oil is known as the Royal Dutch-Shell. They sell tickets stamped "Royal Dutch Air Lines" for the ships of the K. L. M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij). And goods shipped from the Netherlands to English-speaking countries often are branded "Dutch...
...brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases in the War. And today the average U. S. citizen seldom goes from dawn to dusk without using a half-dozen Scovill products...
...Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China. And now after her saber-rattling naval announcement, she attempts to monopolize Manchurian oil fields and to drive out American, British and Dutch interests represented by the Standard Oil, Royal Shell and other companies...