Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later, Albert Bacon Fall made a sad trip, back to Three Rivers, N. Mex., resigned, suspect, disgraced. People were saying he had accepted presents from oil men in return for giving them rich leases and contracts on Government reserves...
...loosely classed as investment trusts. These companies accounted for no less than $1,494,093,000-or somewhat more than one third of the entire total. Next came public utilities, which got along on $777,191,000. Low on the list were Coal and Construction, high were Aviation and Oil. Ten leaders in new financing were...
...Oil...
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real...
...learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry Ford...