Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof just lifted up. Then the walls fell out and the roof fell in," said William C. Shaw, the superintendent. "It sounded like dynamite," said a boy named Barber on the football team. ''It blew up like a tin can with a firecracker inside it," said an oil field worker. Across the plains for miles around, horrified observers on shanty porches, at oil derricks, in automobiles, thought of a hurricane, an earthquake, a battle, as at 3:05 last Thursday afternoon the high-school wing of the Consolidated School at New London, Tex., suddenly blew to pieces...
...from unknown to western advertisers. A director of the potent McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, he is a strict office disciplinarian, a busy executive, and though he has finished no commercial drawings for 20 years, he still makes layouts and rough sketches for Del Monte Peaches and Standard Oil of California. For five years he served with Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco Art Commission, has exhibited frequently in West Coast shows...
Three of the six committee members certainly owed allegiance to Standard, which happens to be the biggest single taxpayer in oil-rich Colombia-Director Bedford, Standard's attorney James Henry Hayes and Adman Harrison K. McCann of McCann-Erickson, some 15% of whose business is in Standard Oil accounts. Furthermore, the committee had occupied rent-free quarters in the Standard Oil building at No. 26 Broadway, Manhattan. On the face of it, grumbled Mr. Teagle to Director Bedford, he was forced to agree with a friend of his who remarked that the committee was "pretty well plastered with...
...deposit certificates (to be exchanged for Colombian bonds), it wanted to know what would happen if the protection of bondholders required action detrimental to Standard, such as pressing for higher taxes in Colombia. Committeemen Hayes and McCann admitted they would resign before doing anything prejudicial to the big oil company. The fact that the committee was "plastered with 26 Broadway'' seemed largely coincidence, but SEC took the case under advisement...
Elliott Roosevelt (second son), struck oil (500 bbl. a day) on the Ed Hughes ranch in Crane County, Tex. which he leased with Elder Brother James, John Daniel Hertz of Yellow Cab Co., Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...