Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have "turned the corner." And herein lay the crisis. The narrow spread between crude and gasoline means small profits for refiners. Oilmen nervously watched production figures, feeling that the first surge of unwanted oil would upset the price structure. In Oklahoma, where troopers have dug up most of the illicit pipelines which secretly carried oil from shut-in wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become increasingly difficult and the State's commissioners were reported almost ready to give up. Production in the East Texas field showed a tendency to mount despite...
...hour and a half, mother love is engaged in a deadly combat with an illicit attraction for a third corner,--all within the predominantly maternal bosom of la Dietrich. The theme is not new, but, with such a supporting cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good...
...Illicit Affairs? Pennsylvania's holdings in Wabash and B. & O.'s in Western Maryland the I. C. C. has long viewed as violations of the anti-trust law. Both roads were ordered to cease their illicit affairs with these weaker carriers. But last week the I. C. C. gave up its fight for corporate morality, told Pennsylvania and B. & O. to take their sweethearts openly into their homes...
...Birth Control may produce a factor in reducing illicit abortions (therapeutic abortions to save the woman's life or protect her health are legal practically everywhere), especially if more reliable contraceptive measures are discovered. (Recommended by the 80 authentic Birth Control clinics in the U. S. as nearest to perfection is the late Dr. James Fryer Cooper's combination of jell & dam. Production cost of the preparations is trifling. But like everything in the U. S. which has to do with sex, the retail cost is high. Clinics charge $1.25 for the dam, 75? for the jell. Drugstores...
...Christmas presents Mrs. Hoover paid $80 for 40 pairs of candlesticks fashioned from the copper of illicit liquor stills. They were the product of veterans undergoing occupational therapy at Walter Reed Hospital. The Washington Police Department contributed the material following 'legger raids about the city...