Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Managing Editor Frank A. Eaton, formerly of eminently tasteful Sportsman, could easily fill his publication with photographs supplied free of charge by tourist bureaus, articles by press agents. Instead he gathered about him for his first issue contributors of fame, among them: Sinclair Lewis, Ellis Parker Butler, Berton Braley, Corey Ford, Heywood Broun, Stephen Leacock, and Artists John Holmgren, Adolph Triedler, John Rae, Tony Sarg...
...arrangements with Shell Eastern to install slot telephones in Shell's stations, enable customers to deal directly with the telegraph company. This contract involves 320 filling stations. Other Shell subsidiaries may soon raise the total to around 1,300. Negotiations are also reported between Western Union and Richfield, Sinclair, Cities Service. New England filling stations, not the telegraph companies, are supposed to have originated the telegram service idea, which follows closely on the now widespread policy of selling tires in gas stations...
...Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. on the eve of an expansion (TIME, Aug. 25), reported earnings for the first half of $3,251,000 against $6,196,000 last year. This is 49? a share against a dividend requirement of $2 for the year...
Despite the present confusion surrounding Mrs. McPherson, and the portentous warnings of her mother, those familiar with Sister Aimee's remarkable career predicted that her present difficulties would lead but to greater triumphs. Her history is quite as colorful as those created for her by Sinclair Lewis in Elmer Gantry and Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies...
Although reports that Sinclair Oil will soon be a world-wide organization, tilting full force with the Standard group and Shell, are probably exaggerated, it is known that Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co. and Tide Water Associated Oil Co. have been approached by Sinclair, may be acquired...