Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, however, he asks for the four billion to save Russian oil fields from the English, Dutch, French, and Americans, and argues that since the Tsar was Russia's the Tsar is not dead, he is granted his request. As he leaves, the Grand Dutchess shouts at him "Tovarich", which is Russian for comrade...
...Hartnett, catcher for the Chicago Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator to get him Mr. C. D. Stengel at his oil field in Omaha. Tex. "Casey," President Quinn called into the instrument, "want to come with us next year...
...date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
...disappointingly impersonal reports, the Anthracite Commission last week turned up a genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...
...long did the M. & O., which runs from St. Louis to the Gulf, look like a widow's back yard. In the booming middle twenties it paid dividends and plowed earnings back into the plant. Then came Depression and a combination of new natural gas and oil pipe lines, improved highways and two Government-subsidized barge lines made traffic pickings so slim in the Mississippi Valley that the M. & O. derailed into receivership. Railroader Norris was receiver until the Southern called him back to Washington...