Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pink women in breezy undress by Jon Corbino; Sheldon Street, a Utrillo-like landscape by Francis Speight; The Mirage, an industrial waterfront with wild smoke reflections by Ernest Fiene; Charlie Ervine, a Maine portrait by Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Nov. 15). Awards: for the best picture painted in oil, to Eugene Speicher for Marianna; for the best portrait, to Arnold Blanch for Portrait of a Man; for the best landscape, to Philadelphia's gifted Antonio P. Martino for Leverington Avenue...
...several municipal chemists and police, started carrying the packing cases to the waiting trucks. One clumsy soldier let a case fall. With crash after crash that broke windows a mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
...laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
Other Fuels. In 1899 hard coal accounted for 22.1% of fuel-produced energy, oil and gas 7.9%. In 1935, anthra-city provided 7.9%, oil and gas 38.1%. Only lately have hard-coal men bestirred themselves to fight this trend. Anthracite Industries, Inc., supported by $1.000,000 contributed yearly by 70% of the industry, is now at work on improved furnaces, stokers, plastic cement from coal ashes, etc. Anthracite equipment dealers claim a 50% increase in sales in the first nine months of 1937 in 21 eastern cities against a 7% gain in oil burners...
Freight Rates. From Pottsville, Pa. iron ore can be shipped to New York harbor for $1.21 a ton, but the rate on a ton of anthracite is $2.39. Fuel oil shipped from Harrisburg to Philadelphia goes for 62? a ton, 24? cheaper than coal. This difference must be covered in anthracite prices...