Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Best Mortison Story: A large snapping turtle having lost its shell in an automobile accident learned to wear becomingly a cement shell made by Mr. Green. Through gratitude, the turtle came to live with Mr. Green, to serve him as a ratter...
...suit to restrain Standard Oil Co. of New York from merging with Vacuum Oil Co. (TIME, March 3 et seq.) reached an end last week in Manhattan. Vacuum Director Harold F. Sheets, the last witness, analyzed world petroleum production in 1929. According to his figures. Royal Dutch Shell was far in the lead with 175,992,000 bbl., with Standard of New Jersey second (101,100,000 bbl.). Socony and Vacuum combined were down in sixth place (57,986.000 bbl.). In daily refinery capacity he put Standard of New Jersey first (718,000 bbl.), Dutch Shell second...
...Vacuum Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. of New York, both offspring of the oldtime huge Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Vacuum and Standard reasons for merger are that they must face severe competition in New England and New York from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch Shell Oil. Testimony showed that Shell's 1929 sales in the district were 7,175,241 bbl. of 42 gal. each. Combined Standard and Vacuum 1929 sales in the same district were more than 17,500,000 bbl. of 50 gal. each...
...Manhattan last week. The late General Horace Porter of Civil War fame, onetime secretary to President U. S. Grant, had built it into his Victorian brownstone house at No. 277 Madison Avenue. His purpose remains obscure. When World Housewreckers opened the vault, it contained only an ancient artillery shell. Whatever the General's purpose, he did his work well. The house came down "nice and easy," but the vault required an arduous siege.* Said Foreman Jacob Camen: "We've been gnawing at it for three days now with pneumatic drills and acetylene torches and so far haven't made much...
...bitter than most young soldiers' reminiscences, are cloaked in comic, Chaplinesque, sometimes clownish guise. Author Deval, short-sighted and unfit for fighting, spent most of the War in the Service of Supplies, saw little action at the front. Even at that, three of his comrades were killed by a shell within 50 yards of him; he himself was gassed...