Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country beyond the lake was devoted to sheep raising. This, said the British Admiral, was the place to build Rumania's great Naval base, home of the dreamed-of Rumanian Black Sea Fleet. It was also a convenient spot for refueling, since it was close to Rumanian oil fields, if the British Navy ever needed...
Back to Napoleon? To force Germany to fight on two fronts, to cut her off from the oil and grain fields of East Europe is vital to England and France. To do so they must help their allies in the East. Once war begins, they will be practically cut off from sending aid to Poland, which aims to fight a delaying war, retreating bloodily to Warsaw and the Vistula. If they are also cut off from Turkey, Rumania and Greece, they will not be able to use any of their strength to squeeze Germany between pincers...
...canvas, laid down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry, in the ten years since he first hit his stride with a picture of violence called The Tornado, has become the most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls of a corridor facing the General Land Office, on the fifth floor of the new Department of the Interior building in Washington...
...from a bust of the Great Emancipator above his desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln...
This week the No. 1 U. S. oil State made a bold answer: Texas shut down 87,600 wells for 15 days, cutting off production of some 1,300,000 barrels daily. Texas' objective: to force up posted prices-no easy job with gasoline stocks at the thumping total of 76,431,000 barrels and crude pouring into the refineries from other fields...