Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Masquerading as ink, paint, olive oil and other prosaic commodities, shipments of high-grade liquor used to proceed to one Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan broker, from one Joel D. Kerper, Philadelphia 'legger. When the U. S. penetrated the shipments' disguises, Broker Norris and 'Legger Kerper were tried in Philadelphia. District, Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick sentenced the 'Legger to 15 months at Atlanta and a $20,000 fine. Broker Norris was fined $200 on the ground that, though the act of purchasing liquor is not prohibited, yet the act of purchasing aids and abets the prohibited transportation...
...lose games. It is safe to say that for the last three years the Chicago team has shown a profit. This year, playing to 1,500,000 patrons in Chicago alone, the team must have been returning a profit on its investment at which General Motors or Standard Oil would probably turn enviously green. When his team made certain of winning the pennant, Mr. Wrigley told all the players to have a big evening at his expense; adding that he would not honor any expense account for less than $50. Quieter in manner, taller and thinner in figure, less pretentious...
...Alberge continued his investigations. Dramatically he announced the solution. It was not the posters but the paste with which they were posted that attracted the goats. The Spanish paste was bitter, unpalatable. The French paste smelt and tasted of honey. The French cinema proprietor added a few drops of oil of bitter almonds to his paste...
Natural gas is an adaptable agent. It may be used in anesthesia or in the cure of sleeping-sickness, in fueling or fighting fires, in blowing up cities or in dyeing cloth. Its first and perhaps most important use, however, is in supplying the pressure that forces crude oil from the bowels of the earth to the surface. When local gas pressure is exhausted, further working of an oil well is almost prohibitively expensive...
...therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining...