Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appropriated $2,500 to buy an oil portrait of Herbert Hoover to hang in the White House...
...reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around...
...Took half ($22,035,000) of her scrap iron sold last year and, in the first five 1939 months, $45,710,000 worth of oil and gasoline, copper and machinery, autos, trucks and parts...
...Supplied her with 70.4% of her scrap iron and steel, 60.5% of her oil and gasoline, 41.6% of her pig iron, 92.9% of her copper, 48.5% of her machinery and engines, 91.2% of her autos, trucks and parts (latest available figures...
...goods. Cutting off U.S. scrap would put a serious crimp in Japan's manufacture of guns and other weapons. With very little scrap iron available outside of the U.S., Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere, but not to advantage. To be unable to buy parts for her U.S.-made trucks, etc. might be embarrassing to Japan, especially if Canada (which has U.S. motor subsidiaries) should also clamp down...