Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cooked hamburger. At 1:40 p.m. he allowed: "I've been on my feet the last 17 hours and I still feel pretty good." At 7:21 p.m. Thurmond broke the old Senate record for longwindedness, set by Oregon's Wayne Morse in the 1953 tidelands oil filibuster.* And at 9:12 p.m., 24 hours and 18 minutes after he started, Thurmond shut up and sat down...
...that Kohler rested upon his good record as governor and upon Eisenhower's thread-thin coattails. Proxmire shook hands-a million by his own smiling summary-and hit hard at his issues in such vote-catching phrases as "big-business price fixing . . . big steel, big oil, big food . . . big processors hammering down the farmers' income...
...family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care of themselves and to get what they could, any way they could...
...Iranian oil law passed this month specifies that the state company must hold a 30% interest in any joint venture, assuring Iran of at least a 65% slice of the profits. Like it or not, Iran has so much promising oil land that at least two U.S. companies are now considering moving into Iran to explore under the terms...
Destroyer. Crab grass, dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...