Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California cried: "Save the beaches!" In a newspaper article he declared that oil interests were menacing the "spectacular charm," "the permanent scenic and spiritual enrichment," of the littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in the British protectorate of Sierra Leone, West Africa...
...Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each pound it weighs. I am personally laying it out although a crowd of us, Edsel and others, are working on it." (See AERONAUTICS.) All these and other remarks were made sublime by Edsel Ford's remarking that...
...Davis became a rich man-although not so rich as Mr. Seiberling. He sold his interests in U. S. Rubber, and with his money prospected for oil in Texas. He lest all except faith in Texas oil. He called on his friend for a loan, and promptly got $57,000. Then he struck oil, made...
Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...