Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...happened, they knew not how, that they were the "twelve good men and true," who were selected by lot to decide whether or not Albert B. Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, and Edward L. Doheny, oil potentate, were guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales...
...Doheny and his family went home to Los Angeles, Calif., to gather round their Christmas tree. All criminal charges against the oil man and his son will probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial...
...contempt of court, and this place is one of them. . . . "Mr. President, there are millions of his [Mr. Fall's] countrymen who would not object to seeing him adorned with a yellow necktie in the form of a grass rope. If an American soldier in charge of the oil reserves of the nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide...
Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...