Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington for its annual visit went a traveling company of the Metropolitan Opera. Of greatest interest and familiarity to President and Mrs. Hoover was Singer Lawrence Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay...
...Oil conservation moved off in a new direction last week. The Federal board headed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to deal with this problem advised the American Petroleum Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little-used state-compact clause of the U. S. Constitution. What smart Secretary Wilbur proposed to the A. P. I. was: Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations...
...Recent example: New York-New Jersey covering the Port of New York's Development. † Three largest oil states: Texas, California, Oklahoma...
...Cabinet was represented as a squad of robots. His official secretariat was lampooned as running around frantically to keep busy. In song he was reminded that he was but "king for a day." His administrative machine was described as "water-cooled, dry-batteried and using no oil...
Sued. Peabody, Houghteling & Co. of Chicago (securities) for $2,660,500; by 500 bondholders of the New England Oil Refining Co., who charge that they were persuaded to buy $5,000,000 worth of bonds by misleading representation...