Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, K.C.L. A-2 was uneventfully running 400 bbl. of crude a day. It has been throttled down to that figure because of California's proration agreements. In a 24-hour free test run, it yielded 3,600 bbl. Even under prorated production, it is expected to return its investment-$305,000-in three years...
...January morning Investigator Raymond stepped into his car, touched the starter, was blown out of his garage by a crude pipe bomb wired under the hood. Investigator Raymond, who recovered after 150 pieces of steel and glass had been picked out of him, had much to tell his old friends on the homicide squad. Investigator Raymond and Lawyer Rose had been digging into the connections between the Shaw administration and the city's biggest gamblers. Some of these, according to witnesses Lawyer Rose put on the stand, had given Harry Munson-henchman and onetime campaign manager of Mayor Frank...
...inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness of the proprietor, the wreckage caused by a thunderstorm on the night of a Japanese lantern fiesta, the iron insistence with which a tipsy party marches up and down singing "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Off to Work...
...Shows Crude Diagram...
...show you, and of course it will be a rather crude diagram by the time it is transferred to your notebooks --shows diagrams of man's descent both from a spider and a worm by the Arachnid and Amphioxus Theories...