Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight years the 25,000-ton French liner Lafayette shuttled travelers between the U. S. and France. In preparation for the summer tourist season, the Lafayette was last week getting an overhauling in the Havre drydock. One night a stoker, firing oil burners with a blow torch, accidentally set fire to some spilled mazut (fuel oil) in the stokehold...
Tall, bland Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon drew gasps from startled M. P.s by disclosing that as much as 150,000 tons of wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against...
Although it got badly burnt in its search for a beautiful woman (see above), University of Chicago last week found oil to soothe its smarts. Oil has been the University's sustenance from birth. Of its $121,000,000 assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties...
...Getty Oil...
...name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position last fall to warn the Stock Exchange of the insolvency of Richard Whitney. ¶ After Burco, Inc., an investment trust, used 75% ($725.000) of its funds to acquire a minority interest in an inconspicuous Canadian company called Delta Oil Co., Ltd., the New York Curb Exchange suspended trading in Burco shares. The Curb said it was curious to learn what made Delta so valuable. New York Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. said he was curious to learn what connection there was between the Delta deal and the recent...