Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were more easily captured than fast ones, worked out the equation for the slowing effect of hydrogen nuclei. Since the hydrogen atom, having only one outside electron, consists almost entirely of nucleus, it is excellent for braking fast neutrons, and substances rich in hydrogen such as water, paraffin and oil are commonly used for this purpose...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...
Last week from Madison, Wis. the shadow of Ohio's late Senator John Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
Named in the indictment was practically every prince and potentate in U. S. oildom. The list included President Edward G. Seubeit of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Dan Moran of Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water...
From the New Deal, such accusations sounded strange to oilmen's ears. Said one oilman: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mama for doing something papa told...