Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas transport of the Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) took off on a morning run from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground. All on board were...
...Traxler car. As officers came up they found Nell sitting in it, fainted dead away with Sweetpea and June in her lap. All night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms. Sometime near dawn Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going through a detour where a road gang was working...
Place of honor in Professor Ziegler's rubbish was occupied by a futuristic oil painting, The Adventurer by Satirist George Grosz, done in 1917 and sold in 1928 to the Dresden Stadt-Museum. Gaping Nazis gazed at the figure of a cowboy poised with savage alertness and virility amid cubistic vortices of skyscrapers, smokestacks, scaffolding, jazz dancers, bright lights and detached female contours, the Stars & Stripes appearing over his right shoulder. Not on exhibition were any of Grosz's brambly line drawings of Nazi Jew baitings and miscellaneous bestialities which won him, besides an international reputation, the special...
...other portion, blended with the first and running parallel to it, is the equally romantic but far more vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force...
...Rockefeller Center along with three of his brothers. Brother John D. Ill helps on Rockefeller policies. Brother Nelson, supposed to have been the apple of his grandfather's eye, specializes in real estate. Brother Winthrop is the first Rockefeller to take a first-hand interest in oil since the dynasty was founded. Having just completed a year of postgraduate work at Harvard, young Brother David has not yet settled down...