Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embassy secretaries, Standard Oilmen, correspondents, cameramen and other U. S. citizens who had dared to stay on until the last moment before Nanking's fall (see col. 2). Her job done and shells coming far too close for comfort, the Panay moved away, anchored beside three Standard Oil ships in a more peaceful spot, 27 miles upstream from the battle. It was not peaceful long...
Thanks to the generosity of Godfrey L. Cabot '82 the Geology department had at its disposal for scientific experiment a 6000 ft. oil well near Charleston. Although this well never yielded any oil, it provided an excellent opportunity for Leet's important research work...
...outside world. It thought, and still thinks, that no one spot of foreign soil is of sufficient importance to this country to merit our protection on purely economic grounds. It thought, and still thinks, that citizens venturing into a war zone once of the "Panay" and the Standard Oil vessels on the Yangtse was an exception to acknowledged policy, and while the myopic shortcomings of Japanese aviators are to be regretted, nothing can be done...
Amazed were greybeard fishermen of Hampstead and Wilmington, N. C., last week, by the fatback '"miracle" of nearby Topsail Inlet. The menhaden, or fatback, is a herring-like fish, not usually eaten but valuable for oil and manure. It grows to about 18 inches, feeds on microscopic sea life, breeds near shore in enormous shoals...
...precisely 7:45 o'clock last evening an unidentified marauder threw four bricks wrapped in an oil-soaked rag through a side window of a house at 22 Plympton Street, and removed therefrom a lady's pocketbook containing $20 in checks and $10 in cash...