Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the U. S. has to defer most serious matters because he has a common cold. Last week was such a time for Franklin Roosevelt. He took the case out of the hands of his physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, and downed a big dose of castor oil. "Make it short, boys," was his plea at his subsequent press conference. But before the cold took hold, he devoted a press conference to Taxes and Economy. Said...
...More important were the Mehrer's "treaties." One with Lithuania made that country increasingly a Nazi economic domain. And an unprecedented economic agreement with Rumania, signed under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...about 90% of Rumanian oil (annual production: about 53,300,000 barrels), farm products, wheat, timber, bauxite, chromium, copper and sulfate will henceforth be "sold" to Germany, thus going a long way toward ending the Reich's scarcity of food and raw materials...
...Rumanian oil fields and mines will be exploited by German capital...
...there was doubt of Artist Grosz's accomplishment in oil, the wiry strength, textural richness, clean color and solid finish of several still life and nude studies dispelled it. But the gaiety and sensuous life of these paintings made all the more striking a number of gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service...