Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liver Oil Meal Cake. Quaker Oats Co. wishes it to come in free...
...rush hour one evening last week a train of ten carloads of commuters slid down into a Hudson Tube from the Manhattan side. A fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...Debated a minority report on the Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., 36, of Los Angeles, carrier of the famed "little black bag" from his father to one-time Secretary of the Interior Fall during the Elk Hills phase of the conniving that caused the oil scandals; when shot by his insane secretary, who afterward killed himself; in Los Angeles...
...more potent oilmen met at St. Louis, last week, to see what could be done about the overproduction, from which their industry has long been suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening up new fields, greatest obstacle to controlled...