Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oil. Arrangements were virtually completed last week for the Texas Corp. to acquire the California Petroleum Corp. through an exchange of stocks. The Texas Corp. is the largest "independent" oil company in the U. S., has total assets of $432,000,000 including 2,400,000 acres of oil lands in the U. S. and Mexico. The California Petroleum Corp., with assets of $98,000,000, has 70,000 opulent acres in California. Reason for the merger: to expand the Texas Corp.'s operations in the Far East in order to compete more effectively against the Standard Oil...
...manufacturers have found that Russia is in a buying mood for mining and oil equipment, agricultural machinery, binder twine, live stock, chemicals, metals, rubber, cotton, adding machines and typewriters. The Amtorg Trading Corp.* of Manhattan let it be known that business with the Soviet Union has been booming, that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk...
California. The California, largest merchantship (22,000 gross tons) ever built in the U. S. and the only liner driven by electricity, glided into New York Harbor last week to take on stores for her maiden trip to San Francisco. For motive power, fuel oil generates steam, which operates two turbines, which operate two dynamos, which operate two motors, which operate two propeller shafts, which make the ship go. She is vibrationless...
...were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence. These tiny shadows are duplicated in Belvedere facsimiles...
...small hours of Saturday morning a mysterious prowler slipped out of the darkness and haunted Westmorly Court, sending chills up and down the spines of some of the awakened students as they trembled beneath the sheets, talking unconcernedly with others who were burning the midnight oil, and after a hairbreadth escape vanished in the murky grey dawn with over $100 in cash and over a dozen gold watches...