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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...aviation industry's first stockjobbing scandal broke open last week. Whenever public imagination fixes on an industry, as on Oil a decade ago and Gold before that, crooks easily sell stock of little or no value to everready gulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Stock Scandal | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...whirlwind motor, carried Lieut. Nick B. Mamer and Pilot Art Walker. At first they had trouble in making their refueling contacts on their way to New York. More fortunate were they on their way back, had reached St. Paul without mishap as the new week began. Texas Co. (gas & oil) announced that it would establish refueling stations over the country to accommodate such flights in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Continental Oil (Delaware), formerly Marland Oil, from 45 7/8 to 36 7/8, or a decrease of $21,215,421 (not allowing for the shares issued to acquire Continental Oil of Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Twenty Climbers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: For Man & Machine | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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