Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey...
Lumbering into the annual stockholders meeting of his substantial ($362,000,000) Consolidated Oil Corp., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair last week declared: "Either one of two things must happen. The price of finished products must go up or the price of raw material go down. I do not believe that this industry can continue to sell its finished products below the cost of raw materials...
...TIME, May 1] lacked the names of worthies that should have been honorably mentioned. Henry Raleigh and Walter Biggs of my generation have held the admiration and have been an inspiration to contemporaries and students. Other outstanders are James Preston, May Wilson Preston, H. J. Mowat, and that competent Oilman Pruett Carter...
...footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown's Bank. The watch below came tumbling up in undershirts. They saw that...
...running mate (for U. S. Senator) was Elisabeth Oilman, daughter of Johns Hopkins' first president, Daniel C. Oilman...