Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exhausted" was an over-violent word. Still well-oiled is Pennsylvania, though its oil now lies so deep that primary drilling has given way to "water drive"-pumping water to force oil through the wells. Pennsylvania's reserves on January 1, 1939 were 200,000,000 barrels, as compared with more than 9,000,000,000 for Texas...
...undoubtedly know, your make-up editor employed the device of deleting part of a sentence sent to you. It is true I did oil up my rifle, but for the purpose of shooting a buck. I killed a 96-lb. buck and regaled my men's club with it. Since my honorable discharge as chaplain in the last war, I have preached in season and out of season against the sheer folly...
...Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany within the next few months. Soybeans are used to produce margarine, and oil cake used as cattle fodder. Again it was questioned whether the Trans-Siberian, part of the way a one-track affair, could handle such traffic in such a short time...
...Berlin radio estimated that Soviet-Nazi trade for the next year would reach $800,000,000, about twelve times what it was last year. In return for "thousands, even millions" of tons of cotton, oil, flax, wood, Germany would deliver to the Bolsheviks entire factories, chemicals, machinery...
...Soviet aid to China was reported to be pouring into China's most important area, Szechwan, through her northwesternmost area, Sinkiang. Nightly, said these dispatches, 300 trucks were arriving in Chengtu, Szechwan, loaded with arms and ammunition. Then they drove back to Sinkiang with silver bullion, silk, wood, oil, hides. Personnel of the Soviet trading agency in Chungking (China's capital, also in Szechwan) was said to have been increased to more than 300, and Soviet military advisers, aviators, and officers to more than...