Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected. I put the vessel's head toward Halifax and succeeded in coming within 19 miles of the port when our three tanks were finished...
Concerning the night without oil, Prince Louis de Bourbon of Spain, one of the 551 passengers, said: "We had no fear, even though our feet were cold...
...nephew to enjoy them. He was 61 and infirm. His father, the Duke of Northumberland, had never married his mother, a Tudor lady. He had spent his life less among men than in the pursuit of knowledge- mixing chemicals, examining minerals, pondering the earth's origin, improving oil lamps. He had never been in the U. S. but it occurred to him that in such a young country on such a rich continent at such an epochal moment in the history of science, invention and industry, there must be ample room for a fund to keep...
Calkins & Holden, Manhattan, (best user of typography-;Snowdrift advertisements- for Southern Cotton Oil...
...name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress of the last act advances...