Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plains of Texas to the vast abattoirs of the Windy City in coveys, flocks, flights. If airplanes ever get big enough, even this may come to pass. . For the present, Chicagoans and Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
...went for another hour . . . when I suddenly saw what I thought was a bad oil leak in his right-hand motor. I took the wheel and asked Bennett to give me his opinion of the seriousness of the leak. He jotted down that it was very bad. ... It was one of the big moments. . . . We throttled the starboard motor . . . could make a little more than 60 miles an hour on the other two motors. Great...
...claim for the practicability of "rotoring" was strengthened by figures he could quote from the log of the Baden-Baden's lately completed pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also of motor-driven...
...line at the head of the stretch, their sleeves flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds...
...fleets including 35,755 trucks-that only the owners of ten or more machines can be listed. About as many owners again remain anonymous, owning only nine or less trucks. The Gulf Refining Co. has the largest White fleet-1929; the Associated Bell Telephone Co. next-1420; the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. third-1032. This year, as the roll call presented last week showed, there were 124 more owners, 4,662 more Whites on the list than the year before...