Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than air. As a result of cooling generators by hydrogen rather than air, the power output per pound of fuel is increased by 20%, and the fuel saving on a 200,000-kilowatt unit tots up to $20,000 a year. There is no fire or explosion hazard, because oil seals keep the hydrogen purity in the cooling chamber above 98%, and hydrogen will not ignite without more of an air mixture than that...
...rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins, a wildcat country banker who modeled himself on Henry Clay and Napoleon, grabbed a mountain region full of coal and oil during the Civil War's confusion, developed it afterwards with rugged individualism...
...could have been appointed Senator from West Virginia), instead let others do his dirty work. He was the biggest frog in his puddle until a bigger, ruggeder individual-spare, pale-eyed, nonfictional John D. Rockefeller-splashed down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance. We have been accused of monopoly, but a better term is unity." After a price war, Banker Larkins saw the point...
What goes on inside his Amarillo News-Globe office most West Texans already know. He is popular with his 511 employes. He pays his workers well for an oil & cattle town publisher. Each year his employes have owned more and he less of his publishing properties. (His holdings are now down to 20%.) Only last week he let it be known that next January he would turn management over to some of his old hands...
Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, 47, was born in London, son of a U. S.-born chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...