Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Independence, Kans. is the home of Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line which Harry F. Sinclair merged with his Sinclair Consolidated Corp. in 1932. Citizens of Independence still resent the merger, feel that onetime Prairie Chairman William Samuel ("Sam") Fitzpatrick "sold out." Last week resentment boiled into a law suit when the onetime secretary of Prairie Oil and six stockholders filed a petition in a Federal court to dissolve Consolidated Oil, appoint a receiver for its $375,000,000 assets. The suit charged fraud, misrepresentation and manipulation in the merger with Prairie Oil, accused "Sam" Fitzpatrick of accepting...
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Occasionally he offers wholesale wagers in the wrong company. At his Beach Club in 1923 he offered anyone 5-to-1 that a sure starter in the Derby, three months away, could not be named. Up spoke Harry Sinclair and Joshua S. Cosden, asking for $5,000 worth apiece. Both had Derby eligibles, and although their horses had run last in the Preakness week before the Derby, both delightedly posted the $500 entry fee to send them to the barrier. Mr. Sinclair's Zev came in No. 1, Mr. Cosden's Martingale...
...Upton Sinclair once wrote: "When a man dies after three days without food, he dies of fright, not starvation. Unless that three days follows months of malnutrition and semi-starvation...
...after two years suffering with nervous indigestion. I tried a week's fast-induced by reading Upton Sinclair's articles on fasting as a cure. I ate nothing, drank only water. (Incidentally, I had just had my tonsils removed on the day my fast began...