Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of wooden shacks in Austin. Then it struck oil on part of its 2,000,000 west Texas acres (its State endowment). In the next ten years the university built a $10,000,000 campus. Two years ago it hired, at $15,000 a year, one of the nation's top-notch football coaches, Dana Xenophon Bible. Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director...
...Chemical Co., a Long Beach, Calif, subsidiary, manufactures only iodine from oil-well bittern (brine waste...
...that night the Schodack circled the stricken Norwegian, Skipper Clifton Smith pouring out oil to smooth the way for another lifeboat. In the early morning one of the Smaragd's boats made it with seven men. Then the Schodack lowered a second boat, reached the Smaragd and took off the captain and his family, the rest of the crew, two pet dogs. Radioing his owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., Captain Smith was brief and businesslike. "It was tough going. . . . We will need a new lifeboat...
...provide food for the new land, fields of poppies were ploughed under and sown to rice. For raw materials engineers scoured the back country, opened up veins of coal, iron, copper, salt, many small oil wells...
Roads and Rails. Chief problem of the new "New China," almost completely cut off from the sea, is to keep open its routes to the outside world, to obtain supplies, trucks, motor parts, heavy machinery, oil, ammunition. While China's soldiers inched backward from the coastal provinces, China's coolies began the Herculean job of opening four main overland routes to western China...