Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...well-known that ultraviolet light can energize cholesterol and phytosterol (cholesterol is a constituent of animal cells, phytosterol, of plant cells) to behave like Vitamin D as a rickets-preventive. It might be that the ultraviolet light actually created Vitamin D. Vitamins found in milk, cod liver oil and fresh flesh have been supposed to have come ultimately from plants that carried such vitamins...
...world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower 1000 Woolworth Bldg., N. Y. C 50 792 Metropolitan Life, N. Y. C 50 700 Singer Bldg., N. Y. C 41 612 Municipal Bldg., N. Y. C 24 580 Bankers Trust, (tallest bank) N. Y. C 39 539 Pure Oil Bldg., (formely "Jewelers Chicago Bldg.") Chicago 40 523 Straus Bldg., 32 475 Chicago Tribune Bldg 36 462 Wrigley Bldg., Chicago...
Investment bankers know that there is hoarded U. S. money yearning to buy safe securities, and corporations who need to borrow are learning this situation also. Borrowers are willing to pay less interest than heretofore, while investors are willing to accept less. Thus last week Standard Oil of New Jersey through J. P. Morgan & Co. offered $120,000,000 of debenture bonds at 5%. Morgan's merely opened their books and snapped them shut, for $500,000,000 in subscriptions tumbled in. Immediately, Standard Oil of New York offered $50,000,000 debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon...
...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...