Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year more oil than anywhere else outside the U. S. and Russia spouted from Venezuelan wells, and every gallon of it pays a 7% to 10 % royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard...
...gallery a queer little man with a roguish permanent grin came to his side, watching him curiously. Professor Lake was about to ask the stranger if he knew the where-abouts of the needed volume, but before he could say anything the gnomic little man caught him by the arm, and, chuckling a typically library-muted chuckle, pulled him for miles along the gallery. After a long walk in silence they came to a large room, set apart from the rest of the great library, which bore a sign over its closed door: EXPURGATORIA. Inside, in a neat...
...engineering, with four letters and two sabres for all-around athletic prowess. Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied games in Paris, played on the winning rugby team. Next year he was at the Olympics in Antwerp. An automobile crash had split a muscle in his throwing arm. Ambidextrous, he hurled the javelin with the other, finished seventh in the Decathlon...
...Cuba, had been lost. Friends of the planter identified the shark's meal. For years thereafter whenever a person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down for him by Horace S. Mazet...
Talking above the victim's protests, Pete said, "I do plenty tattoos for Harvard mugs--they like the high class woiks. Two weeks ago I do a Mona Lisa on arm of Harvard Freshman. He like her so much, he say he get Jean Harlow on stomach next week maybe. You like know how much Harvard seal cost. It plenty woik. Good one cost three, four dollars. They say fella named Cunnant out there want to change seal. That good idea--seal they got now too much woik. But I put 'veritas' on you for six bits. On the other...