Word: oilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could say about him. Others knew that Murphy had come down from Merseyside the day before, after having helped organize a wildcat strike whose aims were to tie up Liverpool and oust the rather tame leadership of the National Union of Seamen. '"E knows what we want," an oiler told a reporter...
Love Story. In Leitchfield, Ky., 275-Ib. Maggie Oiler, 39, and A. B. Farris, 99, were remarried after twenty years of divorce, because "we couldn't live without each other...
Kansas authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail...
Ralph W. Gallagher, 64, who started out in the oil industry as a pumping-station oiler at 16, retired as board chairman of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). Into his place went Vice President & Director Frank W. Abrams, 56, who went to work for Standard as a draftsman 33 years ago, made his name as boss of marketing and refining for Standard in the U.S. But a large part of the backbreaking operating job will still be done by Standard's red-faced, drawling President Gene Holman and the rest of Jersey's board of directors...
Workers at Marinship shipyard (Sausalito, Calif.) wanted to name one of their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...