Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thermit fame, the chemical (aluminium powder and oxide of iron) with which he last .month relieved Oil City and Franklin, Pa., of an ice-gorge in the Allegheny River; with which he will experiment at "burning up icebergs" this summer in Greenland (TIME, March...
...Celotex" was only one of the many gifts to the explorers. Armour & Co. of Chicago donated considerable beef and preserved bear meat. The Standard Oil gave all the fuel of which need might be expected on the flights...
...Gobelin family and manufactured by the State since the days of Louis XIV. Its production requires such extreme skill and care that the most experienced workman can turn out only a few square feet a year, naturally at a price eclipsing that of all but the most valuable oil paintings. The Gobelins, originally a family of dyers from Reims, were able to purchase patents of nobility through the sale of their tapestries and are not mentioned as artisans later than the 17th Century...
...dropped, while the new Premier holds the Finance portfolio and has entrusted his former ministry (Public Works) to a brother Radical, M. Svuitchitch. The significant fact is, of course, that M. Raditch, leader of the Creation National Party, has consented to enter another Radical Premier's Cabinet - that oil and water have been mixed unstably once more...
King Alexander, in a word, was attempting to re-emulsify two factions as mutually repellent as oil and water. He succeeded so badly that Premier Pashitch and the rest of his Ministers resigned a few days later, leaving the situation profoundly embroiled...