Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California," said Harry Ford Sinclair rather sharply, "and I am in California to stay." Everybody at the dinner remembered the statement, especially Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury. For Mr. Kingsbury is president of potent Standard Oil Co. of California and much as he and Mr. Sinclair admire each other's ability, he does not relish new invasions of his rich territory...
Before Mr. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. (the telephone girls still chirp: "Sinclair") is really "in California" it must have a wide California distribution system. For that reason Consolidated has been bidding, up a notch, then up another, for stricken Richfield Oil Co. with its 5.800 service stations. Fortnight ago the Consolidated offer of securities worth $27,600.000 stood $5,000,000 above the best bid placed by Mr. Kingsbury's Standard (TIME, Nov. 14). But last week Mr. Kingsbury, who relishes practical jokes, chortled a good last chortle. For the Richfield banking creditors' committee decided...
...late summer. Corn broke to 23⅝? lowest since 1897. Race for Richfield. Up a notch last week went the big bidding for possession of Richfield Oil Co. of California, an insolvent company deeply entrenched in the rich Pacific Coast gasoline market. The bidding has been between Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co. of California, with Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. (a big Richfield stockholder) sitting ominously silent at the table. Bid No. 1 was last June when Consolidated offered $18,000,000 in securities. Standard offered $17,000,000, believing...
...roster of playwrights who have worked and still work for the Theatre is a literary honor roll: Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, AE (George William Russell), Sean O'Casey, George Shiels, Lennox Robinson. And many an Irish Player has left home to make good in the U. S.: Arthur Sinclair, Dudley Digges, J. M. Kerrigan, Maire O'Neill...
...author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically. And on this basis he finds Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Upton Sinclair the greatest contemporary writers. But he does not take into consideration the fact that the sociological conditions which brought about a novel like "Oil," which he praises very highly, have passed; it's value sociologically speaking at any rate with likewise pass. Such circumstances are too transitory, too un-universal, too ratiocinative to form a basis for great literature...