Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Eagle. With the long-rumored Standard Oil of N. Y. and Vacuum Oil Co. merger still patiently awaited, Standard stockholders last week were informed that their company will buy White Eagle Oil and Refining Co. One of the leading producers in the Mid-Continent Field, White Eagle markets its products throughout the Middle West and Rocky Mountain territory. In September White Eagle had assets of $36,000,000, of which $28,000,000 represented oil and gas leases, refining stations, pipe lines, tank cars...
Richest of universities is not the University of Texas from whose many square miles of land oil gushes, nor Duke University to which went much of the Duke tobacco fortune, but Harvard University where for generations endowments have piled upon endowments. Last week the treasurer of Harvard made his annual report, listed Harvard investments (as of June 30) at $81,000,000, earning 5.5% during the year...
...Curtiss Tanager, entrant in the Guggenheim Fund Safe Aircraft Competition, passed all its preliminary tests last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. It enters the finals with only one possible rival, a Handley-Page biplane similar in many respects to the Curtiss entry. Both planes have automatic wing slots. Frederick Handley Page has filed suit in Brooklyn for triple the amount of any prize the Tanager may win. He claims that the Curtiss plane is using wing slots on which he has a patent, without his warrant. The Curtiss company is expected to file counteraction claiming infringement of six basic...
...rough wall of wind frescoed with whorls of fog effectively blocked Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, to flyers last week. Nor could boats cross under the wall, for clumps of ice, like polar lizards, skittered through from the Arctic Ocean southward. Yet it was becoming increasingly urgent that men get from the American to the Siberian side. Carl Ben Eielson was lost somewhere over there, with his mechanic Earl Borland. They had been missing since a flight Nov. 9. If living, their provisions, doled sparingly to each other, would have lasted two months...
...Teller, a neat village of ten frame buildings, a group of flannel-shirted, khaki-trousered flyers in fur parkas and mukluks, stomped around in helpless patience last week. What planes they had, light open ones, could not ram through the foggy wind wall. But able help was en route. The Coast Guard cutter Chelan landed three Fairchild cabin planes and Canadian crews at Seward, whence they were shipped by rail to Fairbanks. There the Canadians assembled their planes and flew them towards Teller. They undoubtedly can jump the wall...