Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tariff of $1 per bbl. on crude oil were these economic facts: last year the U. S. produced about a billion barrels of oil. Its net imports, free-listed, were about 53,000,000 bbl. Largest importers are Standard of New Jersey, Standard of New York, Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell. When, as a conservation measure, President Hoover tried to induce U. S. oil producers to limit their output, the American Independent Petroleum Association balked. These independent producers argued that it would be futile to limit U. S. oil output so long as the four big importing companies could freely bring...
...incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the novel was the famous Victory. As a matter of fact the picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings...
...most important phase of the U. S. egg market is the, use of fresh, or shell eggs, for freezing (breaking them and placing them in 30-lb. containers in which they are frozen and then kept at from zero to 5° Cent.). Annually 6,000,000 cases (30 doz. in a case) are "broken out" for this purpose, used extensively by wholesale bakers. Recently frozen eggs have been used to some extent by manufacturers of macaroni, mayonnaise, ice cream and candy, who previously used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor...
...earnings far above those of Standard of California, about equal to Standard of Indiana, but below Standard of New Jersey. The two companies would distribute petroleum products equal to about 9% of the total U. S. consumption. Especially potent would be the new combination in battling the Royal Dutch-Shell group which has been engaged in combat with Standard of New York both here and abroad...
...Chicago Tribune seems to believe that a momentous hockey victory was necessary to drive our erudite co-students at Harvard from their intellectual shell to such actions. From what we have always heard and observed about Harvard students it seems that hockey victory was just a nice excuse for the big, bad Cambridge boys to go out and do naughty things so that they will some day be able to tell their grandchildren what they did when they were in college. --Daily Illini...