Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reasons making the Antofagasta stop worthwhile for all concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...
...Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week asked the Senate to confirm. Honest man though Secretary West may be, his past affiliations and investments could not have been more provoking to Senatorial sensibilities. In an atmosphere still surcharged with the Interior Department (oil) scandals of the Harding era and lately recharged by outcries against the so-called Power Trust, it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would not be confirmed...
Because the number of banana eaters in the U. S. is practically a daily constant, and because from the banana comes such useful commodities as banana oil, the United Fruit Co. (Manhattan) has developed many square miles of banana plantations near Santa Marta. Here the company owns a railroad (28 miles), has its own telegraph and radio stations, maintains a hospital, employs 200 U. S. citizens, about 19,000 native workers...
...conduct of materials under these pressures is of great interest. Steel is used as a lubricant in the apparatus, for oil becomes solid under compression. Four different types of lee have been discovered. Which freeze at different temperatures and pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressure chamber of the pump...
Elected. Peter Hurll, English representative of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; to be a director of the company, succeeding the late George Henry Jones (TIME...