Word: oil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library will put up only the few hundred dollars needed for materials. WPA will pay Edward Laning and his three assistants $23.86 a week. He will paint in oil on canvas. When the paintings are pasted up on the panels in about a year the Library will also repair the ceiling, the color of which ran when the roof leaked some 15 years...
...vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China), Economist Nourse went to Brookings with Dr. Moulton in 1922 after teaching in a number of colleges. His latest work gives a readable history of general prices, lists numerous reasons why price policies have erred, also lists numerous examples of progress in corporate pricing, concludes...
Marketed last week, at record low interest rates for industrial bonds, was a Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) $50,000,000 issue of 15-year, 2¾% debentures and a$35,000,000 issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life...
...major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat...
...depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young wife, his eldest son, Manuel, home on a holiday from the Texas oil fields, his youngest son, Carlos...