Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur F. Anders, shot through the throat and unable to speak, scrawled the order to abandon ship on the bulkhead. While the crew and refugee passengers, many of them wounded, were being taken ashore in small boats, the planes machine-gunned them, then veered off to bomb three Standard Oil tankers. The refugees, fearful of more attacks, lay freezing in the muck & reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began...
...Court of St. James; following a diagnostic operation which disclosed "abdominal Hodgkins disease," probably some form of infection with the appearance of tumor, whose rarity baffled Johns Hopkins' surgeons, whose seriousness surprised his friends; in Baltimore. His second marriage, in 1916, was to the widow of Standard Oil's late great Henry M. Flagler. She died eight months after marrying Mr. Bingham, left him $5,000,000. Next year he purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, became famed as one of the South's great newspaper proprietors...
...generators was entirely too decrepit to function. By next day three others had started, but one promptly broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they...
That Banker Fleishhacker's suits are not ended was evident also in another quarter, Los Angeles, where the same group of angry Lazard Freres heirs is suing Banker Fleishhacker. the Anglo Bank and others for $1,250,000 damages from the sale in 1915-17 of the Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never...
...When a president dies, hire a new office boy," is the pet maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide...