Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle of Portsmouth Square, bellowed and sang until the saloons emptied to hear him. For diversion he swam regularly across San Francisco Bay, a procedure still regarded as something of an athletic feat. He founded the College of the Pacific (Methodist Episcopal college in Stockton, enrollment about 970), wrote...
...Annual game, "Killing the Cat in the Barrel," to be attended by Royal Family at Dragor, Denmark...
...California began cutting crude oil prices, sent great quantities of gasoline east as cheap as 6 cents a gallon in shipload lots. To meet this new level in the price of petroleum products, Standard of New Jersey through two subsidiaries* cut crude prices from 19? to 41? a barrel...
...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...