Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while oil had seemed to be one industry that had avoided the "inventory depression" of the past year. With production in most of the mid-continent field strictly prorated, crude prices have been steady all year and crude oil stocks have been held down so much that on October 1 they were at a 15-year low of 280,852,000 bbls. But refiners, who did not see Depression II coming, have been feeling the pinch of reduced industrial demand and curtailed public consumption; their stocks of refined products now stand at phenomenal highs-fuel...
...THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO-Rachel Field-Macmillan...
When her subject is right, as it was in Time Out of Mind and Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field can do it up brown. Her robust whimsicality, freshness and charm rank her, without disparagement, as the Louisa May Alcott of contemporary writers. All this, and Heaven too, the "true" story of her great-aunt, Henriette Desportes Field, is a Rachel Field natural...
...brilliant self-defense before a hostile court, Henriette won acquittal, went to the U.S., taught in a fashionable girls' school in Manhattan. She married Henry Field, a preacher-writer ten years her junior, and for two decades, until her death in 1875, reigned as a famous hostess in a Gramercy Park salon frequented by William Cullen Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble...
...Rachel Field's fictionized biography centres on Henriette's six years in the Praslin household, emphasizes her genius with children, her unimpeachable tact in dealing with her violently jealous mistress, her innocence of the scandals that linked her name with the handsome Duc, the injustice of contemporaries (among them Victor Hugo) who characterized her as "a rare woman...at once wicked and charming...