Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging one step ahead of Mr. Murray, Harvey Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Workers Union stormed sarcastically: "We found out what a labor oligarchy is. They said, 'We can't take you in because you'll break up our little playhouse...
What Chinese officialdom needed, the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had decided, was a big dose of the castor oil of Puritanism. The tablespoon with which they dished this out they called the New Life Movement, and with every ounce of Nanking's authority they dosed all China. Batch after batch of local mayors and magistrates were ordered to Nanking, drilled and exhorted there in the primary decencies-to stop wiping noses on sleeves, to stop taking bribes from litigants. They were warned that he who did not practice the new Puritanism might expect the worst-and this was no empty...
...Persians had told the League that they were not particularly pleased that their country's economy was supported by the narcotics trade, but what were they to do about it? The English had grabbed their oil, and in their vast and mountainous country-one-fifth the size of the U. S.-there were no arteries of transport on which agricultural or mineral wealth could be carried down to the sea and the world's markets. The poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands...
...were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled workers have been working on the Trans-Iranian for the past four years, expect to finish the line in 1938. The $125,000,000 cost is being met by import taxes on sugar and tea, royalties on oil-which Shah Reza recovered for his countrymen...
...such people, confident in Right, the discovery of oil last spring near Guaranty's El Segundo holdings was no surprise. Talk of a dollar-for-dollar payment to shareholders grew loud as President Murphy leased the property in exchange for a 16% royalty on any oil produced, last week reached a mighty crescendo: the Guaranty's first well produced 2,500 barrels of oil on its first...