Amarillo's Texas Company Refinery Big Payroll Factor
The Panhandle Plains region centers on Amarillo as a farming hub and industrial powerhouse. A giant refinery operates under the Texas Company, the world’s largest independent oil firm, highlighting oil’s vast national role. The article outlines refining challenges, production of multiple products, and global distribution, noting the company’s reach beyond local industry.
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Texas Company
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Amarillo Refining Co
Reese S. Allen
Flea Policemen To Fight Dope War in Science Test
Indianapolis report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science describes using water fleas, daphnia, as tiny detectors for marijuana. Dr Arno Viehoever explains the test dissolves trace amounts of drug in chemicals poured over the fleas, enabling rapid identification for courtroom evidence.
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Indianapolis
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Arno Viehoever
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Philadelphia
Mansfield predicts no balanced budget for Congress
Houston December 27 Rep J J Mansfield chairman of the rivers and harbors committee says the national budget will not be balanced in the coming regular session and perhaps not in our lifetime. He doubts Congress will pass the administration wage hour bill and notes expenditures twice revenue prevent balance. He expects a farm bill and a new tax bill with excess profits provisions and a national planning bill. He visited Harris County flood control study in relation to the Houston ship channel.
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U.P
J. J. Mansfield
Congress
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Mansfield
Harris County
Houston Ship Channel
J. Russel Wail
Christmas Reprieve Sought for Dahl
Paris reports Mrs Harold F B Dahl asking Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco to release her husband, 28 year old Champaign Illinois aviator Dahl. Shot down last July while flying for the Spanish government, he was sentenced to death by a court martial and reprieved in October. He recuperates in a Salamanca hospital from long imprisonment.
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Paris
Harold FB. Dahl
Francisco Franco
Champaign
Dahl
Franco
Salamanca
Bethlehem Star May Reappear
Los Angeles observers report the authentic Bethlehem star may reappear as Halley’s comet returns in 1985. Dr. R. S. Richardson of Mt Wilson Observatory notes the star could be seen by millions, while some astronomers think the Bethlehem event was a nova.
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Los Angeles
Bethlehem
Halley
R. S&s. Richardson
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Conservatives And Liberals Split Seen In Congress Clash
Washington observers foresee a sharp clash between conservative and liberal elements in Congress when the new session opens. The split crosses party lines as conservatives push independence while administration supporters defend Roosevelt policies amid tax, anti monopoly, and wage hour debates.
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Senate
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Supreme Court
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Rate Extension Quiz Is Today in Amarillo
County agents and cattlemen arrive in Amarillo for a Texas Railroad Commission hearing at the Herring Hotel. Nine Panhandle counties seek continuation of reduced livestock feed rates beyond December 31. Testimony will note persistent drought in the Panhandle. Rate cuts of about 25 percent have been in place for months.
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Amarillo
Texas Railroad Commission
Herring Hotel
Panhandle
Drouth
Carson
Dallam
Hansford
Hartley
Moore
Oldham
Potter
Randall and
Sherman
Austin
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Partly cloudy conditions linger Tuesday across West Texas west of 100th Meridians and in northwest New Mexico. Generally fair weather expected for Tuesday with cooler highs in the northern portions. Hourly readings show temperatures around the mid to upper 80s at midday and cooler early morning readings in the upper 40s to 50s.
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100Th
New Mexico
Amarillo Festardey
Serena
Ian
Toll sets new high as 525 killed in holiday deaths
A nationwide Christmas weekend toll tops 525 deaths with 330 auto fatalities and hundreds injured. Reports from Illinois led with 71 deaths, while Chicago’s Cook County area saw 51 violent deaths, including drownings and shootings, and incidents stretched from New Jersey to California.
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Tts
Pennsylvania
New York
California
New Jersey
Cook County
Chicago
Wellaburg
W. Va
Wilmington
N. Y
Alabama
Youngstown
Hio
Cordelia Campbell
Louise
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
International Falls
Minn
Thomas Burns
Snyder
Newark
N. J
Vincent Franco
Antoinette Internale
Tex
Huntington
Ind
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Hollywood
Texas highway death toll forecast for 1937 rises
Texas police report 2007 deaths predicted for the year, with 2029 already recorded and 21 more expected as the black book is revised. The forecasted total climbs to 2050, up 163 from 1936, signaling the unrelenting fatality trend on highways.
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Austin
Texas
Globe-News Want Ads Promote Real Estate and Sales
Post holiday price break for want ads to reach buyers in Globe-News ads. Listings cover houses apartments rooms for rent and sale, business purchases vehicles clothes and more with a three day exposure for as low as .76 cents and quick results. Dial 6262 for Globe-News Want Ads.
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