Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character can only be judged when placed against the exciting background of the years gone by. As the figures of Cleveland and the first Roosevelt towered above the ordinary men in government at the turn of the century, so the man who built up the empire of Standard Oil set the pattern for that industrial achievement which characterized America during those years...
...Congress' flouting of the President's wishes during his vacation absence consisted of nothing more serious than overriding his veterans' pension veto, taxing Philippine coconut oil, extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange Bill. The nation was still in crisis, Franklin Roosevelt was still its supremely popular leader. Congressional elections were only half a year away...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
Ambulances and fire-trucks were now clanging in from every direction. Commander Rosendahl's splendid Navy discipline kept confusion at a minimum. The flames began to subside, but dense black smoke still poured from the twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil. Not until next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew...
...acid (TIME, March 22) were used to coagulate the surfaces of their bodies and prevent evaporation of their vital juices. Pints of blood were pumped into their veins, and all the glucose solution they could stand. Oxygen too was necessary, for noxious gases generated by burning fabric and fuel oil had poisoned their lungs. Between Life & Death their chances were even...