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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squaws rocked on their haunches, crooning. Out leaped an Osage brave in a stamping dance. Other braves followed, a shuffling, foot-thumping, swaying line. One of the dancers was covered with small mirrors. Now and then some one whooped. Emmet Thompson, a young Kaw who has made millions in oil, directed the proceedings. He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curtis Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Richfield Oil Co. and Pan-American Western Petroleum, marking the practical retirement of Edward L. Doheny (Elk Hills) from the oil business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers Everywhere | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Robt. Wright Stewart, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, was last week indicted by the Federal Grand Jury of Washington, D. C., for perjury, in connection with his testimony before the Senate Teapot Dome Committee. The maximum penalty for perjury is five years in jail and a $2,000 fine. Col. Stewart was recently acquitted of contempt before the same Senate committee (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Perjury | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Like beaten puppies, the snarling folk of Broadway often cringe from the hand that is raised to stroke them. For example, Edgar B. Davis, an obscure but very wealthy operator in oil, produced a play called The .Ladder (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926), which dwelt, with confused eloquence, upon a theosophical theory of reincarnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Advertising, Dopey | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...June it will reach its 660th performance. In the duration of its run legends have grown up about the members of The Ladder's cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Advertising, Dopey | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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