Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oil on Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than...
...limitations extended from three to six years for the avowed purpose of prosecuting war frauds. The purpose of Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during the transaction of the Messrs. Fall & Sinclair. Last week's developments in the Fall-Sinclair...
...immediately. The Paulding, herself damaged, had had to run ashore. From the flare-lit ships at sea, men were fishing. Just before midnight, coast guardsmen grappled what seemed like the S-4's hull, more than 100 feet down and several hundred yards from where a "slick" of oil had marked the sinking ship's disappearance. Depth rescuers-including crews and equipment which finally raised the famed S-51 off Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport, and Brooklyn Navy Yards. A diver groped his way down...
...Territory was divided from the Indian Territory. More Indians were sent there - Sacs, Foxes, lowas, Pottawatomies. Also Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Then more Cherokees. Then some Kickapoos. In 1907, the Indian Territory was lumped with Oklahoma Territory and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan, cal ow politics. Of the seven Governors the state has had, six have been threatened with impeachment by bands of political freebooters who from time to time dominate Oklahoma. †Many sat or lay on the floor...
With the institutes of the steel, oil, leather, textile, copper and other industries before them as examples, executives of U. S. sugar refining companies, and their lawyers, met in Manhattan last week and decided to form a similar institute for the sugar industry. Whether producers, shippers and distributors of sugar would be admitted to the institute, the refiners did not decide...