Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent in the sick ward of industry is a great, low-moaning giant whose condition has defied able economic physicians, deft financial surgeons. No sooner is one of his many ailments cured than his rising fever and unhappy bellows proclaim the onrush of another disease. He is the U. S. oil industry, who sometimes agrees with the doctors and sometimes shouts defiance at them. Many times the doctors cannot agree themselves. All year the oil giant's condition has grown steadily more alarming and his suffering is communicated directly to the many thousands of persons on his payroll...
Most active of the consulting physicians at present is Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, M. D. Last week Dr. Wilbur was glad to announce that one of the giant's pains has been partially, temporarily, deadened. For Standard Oil Co. of Indiana finally agreed that for 90 days it will curtail its Venezuela production and imports by 23%. This compares to a 25% reduction by Royal Dutch-Shell. Although independent oilmen have wanted a total embargo or at least a tariff, this voluntary partial curtailment of imports was welcomed by them. Coming a week before the meeting...
Texas. Newest of the giant's ailments has been the opening of the prodigious new pool in Eastern Texas. Last week its production mounted so rapidly that the Texas Railroad Commission revised the original proration figures for the field from 50,000 bbl. to 75,000 bbl, with an ultimate flow in 90 days of 125,000 bbl. Present capacity of the field is estimated...
Father: Scientific investigation shows that the boy will be 7 ft. tall and weigh 400 lb. when he is 21. I want him to develop into a normal, healthy, intelligent heman, not a giant...
...Balboa lay the Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...