Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-smuggling treaty with Mexico which expired during the week. Mexicans feared this announcement was a hint that the U. S. intends to cancel its embargo preventing the shipment of arms into Mexico, if the Mexican Government does not yield in the matter of allegedly confiscatory land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq.). If the embargo is lifted a revolution in Mexico would probably follow. In any case it will be easier to smuggle liquids and solids into the U. S. from Mexico from...
Tactfully, Dr. Cook disappeared for a while. After bobbing up in Europe again, he decided that it would be more profitable to appear on U. S. vaudeville stages. Then he went among the wildmen of Borneo, and later settled in Texas with his eyes on oil. He had a theory: "A consolidation of bankruptcy companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since...
...judge the true value of art is to have a group of laymen vote on it, which is the system selected by E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., in determining the best "Pioneer Woman in America," as conceived by twelve competing sculptors, exhibited for the past fortnight at the Reinhardt Galleries in Manhattan...
Stockholders of Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 corporation selling gas, oil, electricity and transportation to more than 600 U. S. and Canadian communities, received an intimately colloquial letter from their President, Henry Latham Doherty, last week. The letter, like the lines of drama, revealed the tribulations of a quasi servant of the U. S. public: "I am not an impatient man and I am not given to making impatient statements, but I have got to a point where it is hard for me to preserve the semblance of good humor when somebody makes a statement that Cities Service...
Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 holding company, controls directly or indirectly 75 gas, electric light, heat, power, electric railway and water, and more than 45 oil-producing and refining properties in 18 of the United States and in Canada. Its public utilities serve a population of over 3,000,000 people in more than 600 different communities, most notably Denver, Col.; Sandusky, Ohio; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City and Topeka, Kan.; Danbury, Conn...