Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of Miss Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company, Freeporters were amazed to see the picture of their Dr. Levingston printed [in July 1905 McClure's] as the father of John D. Rockefeller. Reporters called at the home but the Doctor was old and feeble and he refused to be interviewed...
...Passed a bill extending for two years the "hot oil" law (prohibiting interstate shipment of oil produced in excess of state quotas...
Britain owns all the oil, developed and undeveloped, in Southern Iran. She controls one-third of Venezuela's output, two-thirds of Mexico's. She has an oil company...
After the U. S., Britain is the world's largest oil consumer. But only recently did she suspect that she might have fairly large quantities in her own island cellars...
...children into partnership for the same purpose; 8) creating pension trusts, which pay reduced taxes, for the benefit not of ordinary employes but of a few high officers of a company. To these dodges Mr. Morgenthau added three others "which the law itself permits": 1) claims for depletion by oil and mining companies, which are allowed as a deduction from income and prevent the Treasury from collecting up to $75,000,000 a year; 2) dividing a husband's income with his wife in tax returns from the eight States which have community property laws,† thereby reducing individual...