Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Millions of Mexicans honestly believe their Government's expropriation of $400,000,000 worth of U. S. and British oil properties is approved in the White House as a justified crackdown upon Capitalist gringos. Britons do not take so easy a view of the matter, and suddenly last week the British Government sent a third note of stern protest. London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole...
...latest reports Good Neighbor Roosevelt had not yet revealed this week what, if anything, the U. S. Government will do about the outrage which British owners of oil properties in Mexico have suffered in the opinion of His Majesty's Government. Meanwhile, British Ambassador to Mexico Owen St. Clair O'Malley was sent packing with two calculated slaps-in-the-face from the Government of President Cárdenas: 1) He was reminded by the Mexican Foreign Office that the United Kingdom has welshed on her War Debt. Wrote Foreign Minister General Eduardo Hay: "The government of Your...
...shore he could see a variety of piers and warehouses, the steel and concrete state pier, used by fishermen and merchants, the black and sooty landings, piled high, for coaling, the brown and weather beaten stages where sailing ships once docked to discharge their cargo of cotton and whale oil. Somehow this sight always filled him with a feeling that the was a part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love...
...Pure Oil stock, underwriters have been lying low. As a result new corporate financing for the first quarter of 1938 amounted to only $111,000,000, a three-year low. That this jam could be broken was indicated by the successful disposal of two big bond issues, Appalachian Electric's $67,000,000 in February and Consolidated Edison's $60,000,000 fortnight ago. Last week brought more evidence that the capital market is opening up: one new issue was sold, three more were announced...
...been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...