Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...walk-away with his slogan: "Sadler in the Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...
...boats sank the 14,115-ton French oil tanker Emile Miguet, their biggest merchant victim to date, and the 5,202-ton British freighter Heronspool. Few days later U-boats destroyed by raking, ruthless shellfire two more French and one British merchantman totaling 26,216 tons. Eight were killed and among the survivors brought ashore by rescue ships 30 wounded victims were on stretchers...
...British warships captured the 13,615-ton German liner Cap Norte, which used to ply the South Atlantic. When caught, said her captors, the Cap Norte, loaded with oil and foodstuffs, was disguised as a Swedish ship and flying the Swedish flag...
...faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...