Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Again, Oil. At the insistence of Senator Norris of Nebraska, the Oil Scandals were reopened and last week another chapter was written, by the Senate Committee on Public Lands (see CORRUPTION...
...people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
...Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after earlier famed Astor yachts, will be flagship of the New York Yacht Club fleet. This privilege the Club secured by electing Vincent Astor Commodore for 1928. Vincent Astor is not an aggressive businessman...
...biggest yacht in point of view of tonnage is Vincent Aster's building in Germany. A Diesel engine oil burner. Over 2,000 tons...
...circumstances upon which such traditions are based that are trouble provoking, but the predictions themselves. It is doubtful if England and America would participate in disastrous war merely because of dissension over debt settlement, oil rights, or the sovereignty of Chicago. But with Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual...