Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it was announced that the vestry would seek the aid of the diocese, go into the civil courts, if necessary, in the effort to have its wish respected. Concurrently Arthur W. Sullivan, senior warden of the church, general manager of the sales department of the Tidewater Oil Co., explained why the Rev. Black was so thoroughly undesired...
...hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades of steel billets and railroad ties, mounted a cannon on each side of the river and fired upon the detectives. The detectives returned the fire. The workmen poured oil on the barges and on the river, and prepared to set the oil afire. The detectives surrendered. Seven men were killed and 20 to 30 wounded. The state government sent troops and put the Homestead Steel Works district under martial law. That broke the strike, but not before eleven strikers...
...famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color, and oil...
...assiduously guards the privacy of his family life, last week used the summer's experience to illustrate that corporations as well as individuals must have character training. He spoke at the sixth annual banquet of the Twenty-six Broadway Club, composed of employes and executives of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter Clark Teagle of the corporation spoke; Mrs. Rockefeller sat at the dinner table...
...monthly transaction now approach half a billion dollars ($429,298,882 last September, the end of its fiscal year). The industrial development of the entire Pacific coast has helped the 66 exchange members. California's manufacturers rank eighth in value for the U. S.; its agricultural products third. Oil stocks have heretofore constituted a great portion of the members' business. Now the exchange seeks more varied securities. A recent sale of a seat brought...