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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stimson destroyed the sugar fraud ring, sent Charles W. Morse to the Atlanta penitentiary, extracted a $30,000 fine out of James Gordon Bennett for running immoral "Personal" advertisements in the old Herald. (Simultaneously the outgoing Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg, was engaged in smashing the old Standard Oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Anglo & London Paris National Bank. A poker-player, a crap-shooter is Herbert; he plays also a talkative game of mediocre and expensive bridge. He unsuccessfully backed local horseracing and doodlebug enterprises. He once raised 600 species of orchids on a bet. The Fleishhackers have wide interests in oil, rails, utilities, industrials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Big San Francisco | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...keeping of records and handling of finance from book-keeper and office boy to treasurer or vice president in charge of finance. The Service Field, which we find in many organizations--which functions as a method of rendering assistance to other departments--makes no profit but does provide the oil in which the wheels of business rotate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

Packard Motor Car Co.'s President Alvan Macauley last week said that by the end of March he would be manufacturing the new Packard-Diesel airplane motor. That will be a milestone, the first Diesel-type (oil-burning) airplane motor developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Packard-Diesel Motor | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Packard-Diesel Motor | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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