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...recent years when an oil man has a nightmare, he sees a sea of petroleum. vaster than the Pacific, with dark green oleaginous billows rolling before a wind that moans "Overproduction, overproduction." Yet last week when 2,941,550 barrels of oil swelled up each day from the bowels of the U. S., a greater secretion than ever at any one time before, there was comparatively little disturbance to the peaceful slumbers...
...member of the (perhaps) richer Guggenheim Bros. firm. The Guaranty's resources then were just about a half-billion. But the War was on in Europe. Morton died; Hemphill had become chairman, Mr. Sabin president. Under President Sabin the Guaranty sold vast bond issues for the Allies, later vaster ones for the U. S. The War over, he organized his bond department as the Guaranty Co., owned wholly by bank stockholders. The bank was yearly becoming bigger & bigger, richer & richer...
Last year U. S. commercial planes flew close to 6,000,000 miles, German planes about 5,750,000. This year U. S. planes will have flown nearly 12,000,000 miles. Because the area is 20 times as large as Germany's, there is vaster opportunity for the expansion of the U. S. industry...
High Seat. One New York Stock Exchange seat last week was sold for $240,000, a new record, and another was sold for $250,000, a further record. Reasons: vast sales of stocks on the exchange; admission of foreign stocks to trading, with certainty of vaster sales...
...book is lifted above mere introspection by the commingling of these others in relations of their own-a frustrate music merchant; a tropical trollop; a ripe Jew; a psychic; a chess-player; a man with a glass eye. Each person is treated as a universe unto himself, in the vaster but no more inscrutable universe of sea and sky now and then visible over the rail or through a porthole...