Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island's small oil docks and ammunition dumps were clapped under guard. Veterans of World War I were given guard detail until one fell asleep at his post (oil dock) while smoking a cigaret, which dropped and caused a big grass fire. Veterans also showed a regrettable tendency to detour their sentry beats to nearby bars: the orderly officer, making his rounds one evening, found the ammunition dump completely deserted and reproachfully wrote his name all over the walls before the sentries reappeared...
Today 25,000 barrels of Barco oil flow daily through the pipe line. Next year they expect to step that up to 50,000, with an eventual top of 70,000 barrels after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...
...Texaco and Socony-Vacuum the Barco oil is welcome. Both sell overseas (there is a 21? tariff on oil imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...
...more about hay fever than Dr. Holmes did, their attitude is more optimistic. To them the disease which annually sets 6,000,000 U. S. victims gasping is a common form of allergy: a bodily sensitivity to certain foreign substances such as eggs, milk, wheat, horsehair, pollen grains, banana oil. Once these substances get into the bloodstream of sensitive people, there ensue such violent reactions as hives, vomiting, blinding headaches, and what Henry Ward Beecher lovingly called "irrepressible sternutation" (sneezing...
...best operative success, all Dr. Holman's patients are fed six haliver oil capsules, four oranges, two lemons, and "some form of vitamin B" every day for at least five days before operation. In emergency operations vitamins C and B are injected just before and just after operation. "On the third day following operation, the vitamin concentrates are resumed by mouth and continued throughout the full convalescent period...