Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother-in-law of Dictator Busch. Guessed Seito: Bolivia will soon join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Guessed Bolivian Minister Dr. Antonio Campero Arce in Rome: Bolivia is a totalitarian State, it will soon join the Pact. Kept guessing in Washington, U. S. observers guessed hardest about Bolivia's oil barter deal with Germany, gasped at a rumor that an ex-German staff officer in Bolivia swung...
...Oil barter deal with Germany?-"Absolutely untrue...
...clerks and workmen swarmed into new plants; steel production jumped from 4,251,000 to 17,600,000 tons yearly; oil and gas production jumped from 11,749,000 to 30,600,000 tons; electrical production increased from five billion kilowatt-hours to more than 36 billion; 11,300 kilometers of railroads were built, as well as hydro-electric projects, chemical plants, textile mills...
Some coal users shifted to oil. Anthracite operators not strike bound, jumped production 49%, despite a price rise of 15? per ton. But the 40,000,000-ton pile of bituminous was burned down to some 20 to 25,000,000 tons, leaving coal's statistical slate clean...
Mother's Son. When, in speaking of art, Nelson Rockefeller's tongue slips and he says "geology" for "morphology," he says he wishes he could get the oil business out of his head for a minute. He is director of Creole Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey with properties in Venezuela. He is also (since a year ago) prince and president of the huge landlording enterprise of Rockefeller Center. Nelson's actual function in both offices is under reasonable public suspicion, but it is, increasingly, that of director and president indeed...