Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipped from her lofty position for the first time in 1934 when Federal prosecutors preparing mail fraud cases against certain oil company officials heard that an attempt had been made to bribe other Federal officials in the interest of the defendants. Their investigation resulted in indictments against Queen Helen, Justice Gavin Craig of the District Court of Appeals and a minor politician named Joseph Weinblatt. Last year Justice Craig and Weinblatt were convicted and sentenced, but Queen Helen was freed...
...allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives a speedboat at Le Touquet, plays polo at Deauville...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
Died. George William Kelham, 65, San Francisco architect; of heart disease; in San Francisco. Designer of San Francisco's Public Library, Federal Reserve Bank, Palace Hotel. Standard Oil and Shell Oil Buildings, he served as chief architect for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, headed the architectural commission of the 1939 San Francisco Bay Exposition...
This linseed oil treatment makes the ski more flexible, thus less likely to break; and also keeps them from soaking; up water thus preventing warping. When skis are out of use for any considerable length of time they should be kept in a press. This consists of clamps at each end, holding the skis together a block in the middle which keeps the how in shape and a piece of wood or metal fastened to the points, pushing them apart...