Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Would Mr. Hoover have the American people believe that in the light of the [oil scandal] disclosures I mentioned there was any rare courage, any leadership or any constructive action...
...England, the rigid airships, R-101 and R-101, each larger than the Count Zeppelin, are awaiting final tests. Within a year they will be put into service between London and Egypt and India. A heavy oil fuel has been developed for their engines. In recent experiments, this fuel was poured on some burning gasoline and actually extinguished...
Death lurks on bright Italian highways and in dingy catacombs; political assassins and oil intrigues are tracked down...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...