Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oil portrait of President Harding is hanging in the White House because the joint congressional committee on the library, acting on recommendation of Charles Moore, chairman of the commission of fine arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased...
...painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production was reduced by 40,000 barrels (week ending March 16 compared to week ending March 9). U.S. industry zoomed along at high speed, threatened many an earning, sales and production record...
...Sinclair Oil...
Among the many Companies which send men into Foreign Service, probably none offers as interesting an opportunity as the Standard Oil Company of New York. This Company, which has distributing agencies throughout Asia, takes on each year from eight to ten college men whom it sends to the Far East to handle distribution work...