The American Oil Company Grows Across 18 States
Twenty-five years ago the American Oil Company began with three employees and 1000 gallons. In that time it expanded to thousands of dealer stations, company-owned stations, a vast tank truck fleet, railroad tank cars, thousands of employees, 15 ocean terminals, and the world’s largest refining unit.
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Dune
American Oi Company
American Oil Company
District of Columbia
Mammoth Ocean
Harnessing Electricity to Make Radium
Story describes midcentury efforts to create radioactive elements like radium using high voltage particle bombardment. A massive Van de Graaff generator in Round Hill Massachusetts will supply up to 7,000,000 volts to accelerate particles toward a target within a giant vacuum tube to activate atoms for cancer research.
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Jean-Frédéric Joliot
Irene Curie-Joliot
Marie Curie
Literary Digest
Round Hill
Mass
Robert van de Graaff
M. I. Ti
Drs
Lester and
Chester van Atta
Dinner for a dollar and a half ideas from a dime novel
A humorous guide offers a six servings menu costing about 1.50 with tomato soup, prunes, salmon squash, bread, cherry tapioca and a dessert. The article compares the challenge to Alice in Looking Glass and provides simplified recipes and cost notes for each dish.
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Lewis Carrail
Allee
Alice
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Platinum Blonde
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Slick
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