Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question at Marietta: Resolved, That the New Deal has failed to solve the problems of Unemployment and Depression. Debater Taft asked voters, did they want an independent or a dominated Congress?, demanded protective tariffs on pottery, glassware, oil. Debater Bulkley indignantly denied that he was a Roosevelt rubber stamp, called Candidate Taft a belated New Dealer and, so far as his platform went, a copycat. Afterwards they shook hands. Next debate: at Dayton this week, Mr. Bulkley to frame the question...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...
Kansas City Southern owns 788 miles of main-line track between Kansas City and the Gulf of Mexico, carries coal, oil and farm products mainly originating in other territories. L.& A. owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...
...contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that for excitement (and, at times, for skill) matches Typhoon. The Archimedes, a trim, 9,000-ton oil-burning freighter, westbound from New York, hits the trick hurricane two days out of Colon. This is on Thursday. By Sunday, when the hurricane abates, the Archimedes is a shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen green around the gills...
...newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...