Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stewart was soothed again. The hearing neared its close, with the Continental phase of the Oil Scandals as obscure as ever. But boyish Senator Nye, chairman of the Public Lands Committee, had the temerity to ask once more...
Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates...
...oil stream continued flowing...
...this sum only three millions were realized. Then the Continental Trading Co. was disbanded. The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (mentioned above as "a third company") bought the remaining contract...
...subscribers in all states except Delaware, South Carolina, Vermont. Who knows but what it may some day become the Atlantic Monthly of the prairies, oil fields and canyons? It was several years in the planning; the first two issues (January, February) have appeared on schedule...