Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the Court Circular of the London Times last week learned that another U. S. heiress had become a British peeress. Mrs. Cara Leland Broughton was the elevated lady. Sister of Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oil tycoon, and aunt of much-married Millicent Rogers Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village...
...first time in many years, the U. S. Government has erected a building at a foreign exposition. Conventionally Spanish, solidly constructed, it will house the U. S. Consulate at Seville after the exposition is closed. Meanwhile visitors thronged inside to see the oil furnaces, electric refrigerators, airplane models, miniature wind tunnels and other mechanical gadgetry...
Paul Y. Anderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Pulitzer paper), did the best reporting (oil scandals aftermath)-$1,000 cash...
After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
...great national oil restriction program (TIME, April 8 et seq.) opened another seam last week when Oklahoma operators decided that the sky was the limit on Oklahoma production. Prairie Oil & Gas and Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...