Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once unshakable bond connecting Law students, midnight oil, and lack of time for activities has been at least slightly loosened by the injection of a competitive key into the dry labors of the men from the North. The old dogma of the graduate's dull life may still hold firmly, but a Harvard-Yale debate by these same graduates gives an opening for its refutation...
...fuel were filtering into Pittsburgh for the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal, called there this week by President Thomas S. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology. The coal business, particularly the bituminous part, has long had trouble making money. Despite great reserves of mined coal, competition from gas, oil and waterpower have kept prices low. The producers have become aggressively intent on selling coal derivatives-pulverized coal, tar, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, dyes, perfumes, drugs, alcohol, etc., etc. How to get those products, scientists already know much; how to utilize that knowledge, coal men know very little...
...Merging U. S. oil companies will include Sinclair Consolidated. Potent in the amalgamation will be the Cutten interests, represented in Manhattan by Nephew R. E. Cutten, trader for E. F. Hutton & Co. The new company, brokers heard, will not bear Sinclair's oilscandalous name. ¶ Stubborn bears drew little comfort from last week's market. They could only pin hopes on bearish theory...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...
...Oil! Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...