Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gasoline. Can a state legislature fix the price of gasoline? In 1927 the Tennessee legislature had declared gasoline a "public utility," subject to state price-fixing. The Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and the Texas Co. protested. The Supreme Court agreed with them. It ruled that gasoline is one of the "ordinary commodities of trade" and "not affected with public interest" and therefore not a public utility...
...motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns his own marque of champagne, keeps a smart racing stable, and draws most of his immense income from real estate scattered throughout Europe and South America, from oil fields in Mexico, and from Le Journal...
Dividends. To stockholders of 450 corporations came extra dividends totaling $250,000,000. Notable were: General Motors Corp., $44,500,000; E. I. du Pont de Nemours, $13,452,000; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., $6,000,000; Standard Oil of California...
...verdict is that he may burn midnight oil as often as he pleases, tossing off his frothy extracts, granted he always prefaces them as well as this: "Almost all the plays in this book are religious, but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners. . . . Our Lord asked us in His work to be not only as gentle as doves, but as wise as serpents...
...preventative has yet to be developed. But the nostrum men, flourishing in a medicinal half-world, made the most of last week's threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with their cleverly evasive advertisements to allure the flu-fearful. Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison's Heart O'Orange, Calotabs, Mu-Sol-Dent, Bulgarian Herb...