Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
...with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs to 150,000,000; 4) Finally the bilingual and bicultural unity of Alsace-Lorraine is constantly being cemented by such newspapers as The Latest News, of Strasbourg, which is printed daily...
...Standard Oil Co. of New York (Socony gasoline and motor oil)-$16,000,000, plus. Previous year: $32,776,502. Reason for difference: price slumps in crude oil and gasoline resulting from overproduction...
...Marland Oil Co.-No earnings; losses, $7,691,076. Previous year's earnings, $11,690,911. President E. W. Marland reminded stockholders of the crisis through which all oil companies passed in 1927, due to the uncontrolled production of crude oil...
Doheny built oil storage tanks to contain fuel oil from the Elk Hills, Cal., field for naval consumption...