Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After howling for two years for a wage increase (fixed at $7,300,000 by the Federal Labor Board last December) which Mexico's 17 foreign oil concerns continue to say they are "unable to pay," mobs of grimy, swarthy oil workers milled about the sun-caked oil fields one day last week seizing derricks, refineries, company rail lines and tank cars. Exultant peons in flopping shirts and trousers swarmed over company offices, quarters and stores. At the oil-loading docks at Tampico, they clambered aboard three British-owned tankers and claimed them for Mexico...
...that a gifted painter's work is usually dispersed among many purchasers, costs a great deal of money, time and tact to reassemble. One of the most remarkable events of the London art season, therefore, was an exhibition which opened fortnight ago at the New Burlington Galleries-852 oil paintings, water colors and drawings, comprising the complete* life work of a young Englishman who died under a train at Salisbury in 1930 while his fame was spreading over Europe...
...valued by their owners at prices up to $10,000 is a quality found everywhere in English poetry but exceptional in English painting : magic of imagery. Artist Wood sharpened his delicate color sense on Picasso but his line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London's definitive exhibition took three years to arrange with the help of Artist Wood's mother, to whom he wrote regularly, describing his work. Private lenders included Prince Paul of Yugoslavia...
John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named...
...owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...