Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste of natural gas has been a way to force reduced production. Now many oilmen hope the conception of an oilfield as a mutually owned unit will be the solution. Production by Royal Dutch-Shell has increased overproduction, but Sir Henry Deterding stoutly maintains he has reduced his production in proportion to U. S. curtailment...
Given this impetus the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has been incorporated and chartered, a paper organization projected, and a ship ordered. Already the shell of the four story building which will house the laboratories and administrative offices of the institute has been completed. It is expected to be ready for occupancy by the summer...
Generally accepted as the reason for the move is the belief that Standard Oil of New York and Vacuum Oil wish freedom in their fight with the Royal Dutch-Shell group, intend to intensify that fight in answer to Shell Union's invasion of the U. S. market. Standard of New Jersey and Texas Corp. were likewise reported as about to take larger parts in the international oil war. Meanwhile the gasoline situation in the U. S. becomes more acute with stocks mounting, prices dropping...
When he was surgeon general of the orthopedic section of the American Expeditionary Forces' medical service, he noted a strange coincidence. Many a shell-broken soldier lay unattended in the fields until his lacerations were alive with maggots. Every one should have died of blood poisoning. But, remarkably, many recovered quickly...
Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...