Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then other governors have called out state troops in an effort to negate the decisions of U.S. courts. In 1932 Governor Ross Sterling of Texas called out the militia to negate a federal court order that removed some local restrictions on the production of oil. Thereupon the Supreme Court gave the spirit of Marshall and Madison its clearest codification. Wrote Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...
...Payoffs got bigger later on, but essentially Johnny Dio remained a pushcart upsetter. Many a New York City 'trucking firm decided that it would be cheaper to slip a Dio mobster a few grand than to get stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...
...Downs. Canada's business and industry made a spotty picture. The big western oil industry throve; deliveries in June stood 13% above the 1956 rate. Capital investment this year should top 1956's record $7.9 billion by some 10%, and brisk retail sales proved that consumers still had money and were willing to spend it. But automobile production was down slightly for the year, and Chrysler of Canada announced that it would operate only one shift a day during the 1958 model year rather than two. Steel production was a little below last year's rate...
Mathieu was too engrossed to hear. He banged the can vas with a towel soaked in yellow paint, kneaded flake-white pigment into snowballs, and pitched them at the dripping oil, slapped on more paint with rapier-quick strokes, seized handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes...
...last week. Colonel De Long's brainchild had grown into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts...