Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Things started: 1) study of law enforcement; 2) oil conservation by states; 3) a reorganized G. O. P., South; 4) naval limitation; 5) curtailment of military costs; 6) elimination of Postal deficits; 7) a conference on child welfare; 8) improvement of U. S. prisons; 9) tariff revision; 10) study of possible tax reduction...
Died. Edward Prizer, 73, of East Orange, N. J., Chairman of the Vacuum Oil Co.; in East Orange...
...casual motorist in New England will have a new joy. He will drive up to a handsome colonial edifice set in a little park plot with poplar trees about it and there he will satisfy both his machine and himself. For the machine there will be gasoline and oil; for the man there will be hot dogs...
This new type of filling station-in the fullest sense-is about to be erected by Beacon Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Beacon announced last week that it had made contracts for six trial stands with Hygrade Food Products Corp. which will furnish the required food and drink. The roadside refreshment stands of the country number 110,000. They did a business of $250,000,000 in 1928. In an era of mergers what is more logical than to do this business efficiently in connection with the filling station...
...idea that other articles than gasoline and oil should be vended from the ubiquitous filling station. An ordinary roadside station may do a gross business of $25,000 a year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...