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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers of Manhattan, oil tycoon; by Mrs. Mary Benjamin Rogers; in Utrecht, Holland; grounds, "infidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body to Chicago, gets into a fight with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...rescue, besides the ponderous Rodney, were the destroyers Tilbury, Vivian, Thanet, the tugs Resolve and Grappler. Lighters, submarine chasers, mine sweepers, hustled out from all the British coast. Aboard the Tilbury was Rear Admiral Henry Edgar Grace, commander of British submarines, taking a new diving apparatus which in tests oil the Firth of Forth had descended successfully to a depth of 300 feet. In London, King's Messenger routed from his bed Professor Leonard Hill, physiologist of the National Institute of Medical Research, authority on deep sea diving, and despatched him north to join the rescue fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Western business than trouble in Afghanistan. Interest in Afghanistan is largely speculative. Persia contains some of the largest, richest oil deposits in the Near East. Last week in the prayers of many a British and U. S. oil tycoon, the name of Shah Reza led all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Cartridge Counting | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...announced that they would do everything they could. at the same time refusing to answer many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds, bad oil stocks, bad loans. There was a credit of $840,000 against the New York Port Terminal Co., a company which was said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clarke Crash | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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