Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tests of the device last week produced plowing like clockwork. But when Mr. Zybach was first experimenting with a crude model, his neighbors warned him not to let the tractor get loose and destroy any of their property. Once he set the machines to plough all night. The neighbors came over at midnight and implored him to stop...
...Situation. In California, Texas, Oklahoma, there are vast underground reservoirs of crude oil into which men have drilled wells. They have been like boys, armed with straws, sucking lemonade up from great bowls. The harder a boy can suck and the more straws he can maneuver, the more lemonade he gets. If he stops to catch his breath or to wipe his nose, the other boys will suck up some share of his drink. Oil operators are such suckers, all ceaselessly aspirating oil from common, underground pools. Oil men are inclined not to trust one another...
Therefore, recently, there has been a great overproduction of crude oil in the U. S. Earlier in May the U. S. was producing 2,512,000 barrels of oil a day. This was approximately 250,000 more than the country was using daily. Therefore most operators had to take what money they could for their oil. Refiners at the same time were reluctant to buy more oil than they could sell. It is expensive to keep oil in storage tanks above ground. Prices have gone down, reflected indirectly in the recent reductions of gasoline prices (TIME...
Because companies pumping crude oil have not worked together, retail prices of gasoline have been dropping throughout the U. S. In Los Angeles last week the tank wagon price (usually two cents below the gasoline station price) was 6.5 cents a gallon. A survey of tank wagon prices elsewhere...
Rupert Brooke, who wrote the above, and Louis Barthou, who has just written a biography,* view the same aspect of Richard Wagner. Both see his crude love-affairs as inherent, important surfaces of his genius rather than detached experiences remote from the mind which was capable of Tristan und Isolde, Der Ring des Nibelungen...