Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention in behalf of investments is either acceptable or unnecessary; and it would be highly unfortunate if short-sighted...
...competitive jungle of coal, the Lewis miners at last succeeded in stabilizing their wages & hours to the satisfaction of many an operator who had wearied of wage & price cutting. Whether in doing so they fatally hampered coal in its losing competition with such other fuels as gas and oil, is an economic question which John Lewis does not like to face. What he does believe is that his miners are so indispensable to C. I. O. that a reverse for them would be a reverse for the entire labor cause...
Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...
Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
...nude show, promptly signed contracts for others. When Sally Rand kicked, he sicked police on her, forced her girls to don brassieres. Last week no successor was appointed. Actual runners of the show from now on will probably be two members of the board of management, Philip Patchin (Standard Oil of California) and James Byers Black (Pacific Gas & Electric), whose companies are the Fair's chief creditors...