Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, due to retire after the Coronation, tried to pour oil on the troubled waters in his last House of Commons speech. The occasion was a debate on the colliery dispute. Cautiously Prime Minister Baldwin committed his Government to no scheme for dissipating the labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared...
...Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
...that few industrialists know that it exists or what it means. Patents belong to English and Dutch concerns (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.. Batavian Petroleum Co.). In the U. S., Eastman Kodak Co. is using the method to refine organic mixtures like cod liver oil, which decompose before they boil...
With the prospect of two years field work in the desert plateau of central Persia, Bennett F. Buie, proctor in Wigglesworth and Geology 1 section man, will sail from Now York this morning on an expedition sent out by the American Oil Company...
...expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically...