Though the independent oil refiners were combating the most powerful financial power of the time, they were frequently fighting in the dark, never knowing where to deliver their blows.
The refiners of Cleveland and Pittsburgh were to get lower rates than the refinerslocated in the oil regions.
But there is much evidence sustaining a contrary view, for many of these refiners afterward went on the witness stand and told circumstantial stories, all of which made precisely the same point.
These refiners and the Pennsylvania, over which the Standard Oil then was making no shipments, thus represented a group, composed of railroads and refiners, which was antagonistic to the Rockefeller interests.
The South Improvement Company was an association of refiners with which the railroads, chiefly the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, and the Erie, made exclusive contracts for shipping oil.
The process that benzine is subject to, to produce naphtha, is not a separate business, but is carried on by the regular oil refiners in the same stills and retorts that the refined oil is produced.
It is now a combination of the most prominent refiners in the country, and has before been credited with manipulating the transportation lines to its own special advantage.
Just before the organization of this trust, overproduction had become so excessive that of forty refiners in the United States eighteen became bankrupt.
We do not want forty refiners engaged in refining sugar where seven will suffice.
The first of the modern trusts was the Standard Oil Trust, which was a combination formed among several of the refiners of crude petroleum in the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio in the year 1869.
The independent refiners of Pittsburgh found themselves again cut off from the market, but necessity soon made them discover another outlet.
The independent refiners kept up their competition for some time, but the great disadvantage of river travel and the insufficient export facilities of Richmond finally forced them to give up the contest.
And when the silver has been fully refined it shall be given by the refiners to the wardens for a tally (or receipt) of the weight, so that there shall be neither suspicion nor deceit on either side.
Several refiners have informed me that the business does not admit of the employment of women in any department.
Most refinersbuy theirs at bag factories, or have their men to make them.
We are all taken care of by therefiners because we look after their interests on the dock.
With him he had gone over the record of the business of the refiners since that period, eight years previous, when the wet sample scheme had been inaugurated.
The refiners were, of course, aware of this tendency.
Then there was a period of five months when there was no sugar from the outside and refiners turned their attention to the home-grown crop.
It had been said that the two cents per pound duty would make it requisite for the refiners to augment their capitals.
A gentleman having imported a considerable quantity of white East India sugar, sold it to the refiners of this place.
There appears to have been considerable manipulation, foreign sugar being imported with the view of producing a panic, followed by a decline of market prices, after which Marseilles refiners would buy.
On the other hand, the argument of Paris refiners is just the reverse.
It has been common practice among refiners to collect as ‘straight’ gasoline all that distillate having a specific gravity above 60°Bé.
The producers and refiners claim that the present immense demand necessitates the mixture of low-boiling kerosene constituents with the true gasoline fraction.
A small jobber located in the same territory as refiners buys a small amount of sugar today and distributes it to his trade the next--time is negligible.
It is equally obvious that the differential should approximate the freight rate between Chicago and the Seaboard, where the refiners are located, with allowance also for the cash discount.
You try to anticipate your requirements for some time to come, but find that refiners will not sell for more than thirty days.
You decided to buy a considerable quantity only to find that refinerswould not sell you to the extent that you wished to purchase.
Buying of Sugar Futures Refiners do not make a practice of taking orders more than thirty days in advance of actual delivery--but there are obviously times when it is advisable to cover one's requirements for a longer period.
Jobbers who believe that the market price of Sugar is going higher and who desire to cover their future requirements beyond the delay period which refiners will extend.
On the other hand, when refiners are badly behind on deliveries, even buyers located at the source of supply will find themselves facing a similar problem the solution of which may be found in a use of the Exchange.
That of the Parisian refiners is regulated as follows.
Blood was at one time largely employed for clarifying syrup, but it is very sparingly used by the sugar refiners in Great Britain of the present day.
The Parisian refiners restore to the owners the whole of the gold and silver contained in the ingots, reserving to themselves the copper which formed the alloy, and charging only the sum of 5-1/2 francs per kilogramme (2.
Other refiners use both the blood and finings, with advantage.
There are about ten bullionrefiners by sulphuric acid in the environs of Paris; two of whom, M.
We are the sugar refiners sent by the Federal Sugar Company," said Captain Hardy, repeating the words given him by the secret service agent.
Then, one afternoon, galvanizing them to sudden action, came a cryptic message from the secret service, announcing that the Federal Sugar Company could use experienced refiners at once.
The modern refiners of our language distinguish two sounds of u long; that of yu and oo; and use both without any regard to Latin or Saxon derivation.
Yet this is a truth that reflects dishonor on our modern refiners of the language.
In many instances they retain correct phrases, instead of which the pretended refiners of the language have introduced those which are highly improper and absurd.
However, the dream I am now going to relate, is as wild as can well be imagined, and adapted to please these refiners upon sleep, without any moral that I can discover.
The lead, as soon as it begins to run into the dipping-pot, is ladled out with an iron ladle into copper moulds such as the refiners generally use.
All the old refiners varied the process by using mixtures of salt, antimony sulphide, and sulphur, in different proportions, with and without lead or copper; the net effect was the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refiners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
