Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the Atlantic, swooped over the jungles of Brazil, threaded the West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...
...became a Federal Judge in the Commerce Court and when this was abolished by Congress he was made a Circuit Judge. Since then he has been sent about the country wherever any particularly difficult cases are being tried. At present Judge Mack is in Boston trying New England oil cases...
...That two notable forgeries accomplished by this man were: 1) a series of "documents" sold by him to U. S. oil interests and by them laid before the Government in. good faith as proving close cooperation between the Mexican Government and the Government of Soviet Russia; 2) a set of "evidence" sold to prominent U. S. Roman Catholics and purporting to prove that a nefarious compact exists between the Ku Klux Klan and the Mexican Government...
...corporations last week received and cashed dividend checks totaling more than $500,000,000 as their income for the first quarter of the year. More than 30 companies also declared extra dividends, notably American Safety Razor, Childs (restaurants), Coca-Cola, Pere Marquette R.R., Midland Steel, Humble Oil & Gas, St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R.R., United Fruit, Singer Sewing Machine. The largest extra dividend-$60 a share-was paid by a relatively obscure concern, Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of aircraft...
...Alaska's uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn...