Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wild Bill Donovan and 56 other high-priced oil company attorneys said that that was precisely what they had been told...
...late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys. The disciplinarian Post-Dispatch disagreed, so the result of his frequent protracted absences was inevitable, though long delayed. Tedious hours of poring over the finely printed technical briefs in the Madison, Wis. oil case overtaxed Paul Anderson's eyes last week, he said, and he had to remain in a dark room three days. Post-Dispatch Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard phoned from St. Louis several times, could not locate Mr. Anderson's dark room, angrily but reluctantly fired...
Colonel Donovan was well aware that he was defending as big a batch of U. S. bigwigs as ever was put on trial. Summoned to Madison last October on the criminal charges of conspiracy to raise and fix gasoline prices were 26 major and subsidiary oil companies, three oil trade journals and 56 oil tycoons. By last week charges had been dismissed against all but 16 companies and 30 men. In 1935 and 1936, according to the Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma...
Major drawback of Diesel engines ever since Rudolf Diesel built the first in Germany 42 years ago has been their heftiness. Although the oil a Diesel burns is cheaper than gasoline and its principle of igniting fuel by heat developed through compression is more efficient than using a spark, the strength required to withstand high internal pressures has made Diesels expensive as well as heavy. Engineers have long tried to make fuel savings offset weight, size and cost, but noticeable success was achieved only in Germany, where Diesels light enough to power the Hindenburg were developed. Last week, however, famed...
...regulating social relationships, the result of this word-witchery is to make men's actions also meaningless. Instead of giving souls to trees, modern man, avers Chase, personifies "national honor," "neutrality," "capital," "labor," "corporations." "It would surely be a rollicking sight," he hoots, "to see the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey in pursuit of happiness at a dance hall...