Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income of this Harvardman is $7,000 a year. Expenses run $2,500, dental supplies, hotel bills, but mostly oil and petrol. In the outback, petrol often runs $1 a gallon...
Last week many a white guest joined the Star of Bethlehem's black congregation at the unveiling of Mrs. Eastman's Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion, done in oil on pressed wood. So delighted were they all with the artist's vivid orange, green, lavender, purple, red and yellow figures, pretty Galilean hills and jagged Calvary that a collection for her was taken up forthwith, netting...
...name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds of 10,000 the past summer. His customary 83-cent top he boosted to $3.30 for last week's derby. Like his colleagues. Promoter Zeiter makes every driver sign a waiver absolving him from damages before getting...
...dramatically reminded of Indianapolis. Rounding the first of the 300 laps, Marshall Lewis' car skidded, overturned. Driver Lewis scrambled out unhurt. Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing. After 2 hr. 18 min. of noise, flying dirt and squirting oil, Los Angeles' Ronney Householder flashed across the finish line, followed by Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed was 65.2 m.p.h. To dapper, mustached 29-year-old Ronney Householder, who grew up with the sport and has been...
...were taken into the fold. Last week, in order to keep this year's crop from drugging the market, AAA officials in Washington held a conference with 100 representatives of growers, arranged for four general co-operative marketing associations to buy peanuts for diversion into by-products and oil instead of sending them directly to market. Last week southwestern growers were asking $65 a ton. Virginia growers as much as $80. The co-operatives will buy the surplus with RFC and AAA funds, may resell to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. Co-operatives will, however, be free to turn...