Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year to each gnawing stomach of 900,000 Madrileños have been rationed only a few daily scraps of bread, a handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...
...Clemens got his B.A. at Madison in 1932, studied at Chicago's Art Institute, married a pretty girl and returned to Milwaukee to work on the Federal Art Project. To Manhattan, along with his paintings, he sent a written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis on the 'American scene' has diminished. It seemed to me preposterous and presumptuous...
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the commission which prorates Texas oil production, last week went to Hyde Park to tell Franklin Roosevelt how confused the industry is: though crude oil production is adequately controlled by the Interstate Oil Compact, lack of control over refining has upset crude prices (TIME, Oct. 24). Saying he was against Government control, Mr. Roosevelt suggested extending the compact to refiners, offered to ask Congress to approve such an extension. As Colonel Thompson took this thought back to the mid-continent oil fields, the industry bitterly noted that the previous day the Anti-Monopoly Committee...
About 21% of sprawling Cities Service Co.'s $241,000,000 annual gross revenue is derived not from oil operations but from selling electricity in 20 States from Connecticut to Washington. Because of its power & light subsidiaries, Cities Service falls under SEC jurisdiction via Section II of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, variously described as the "death," "health" or "life sentence" (TIME, Oct. 24), requiring utilities to reorganize into geographically integrated systems...
...Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey] command rich natural resources, unexploited so far. They will now increase production of agricultural products for which Germany has a special demand, such as cotton and oil cake, and will adapt them for German quality demands. Already about half the foreign trade of these three countries is conducted with Germany and in connection with the crisis-proof German economy this enabled them to overcome the last world economic crisis...