Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed, the United States Supreme Court, in the case where Chief Justice Hughes was quoted above, unanimously denied the power of the Governor of Texas to establish martial law in an oil field for the purpose of carrying out a conservation policy entrusted by the Texas legislature to an administrative body resembling the Rhode Island Racing Commission, when the governor thought that the orders of the Texas commission were not sufficiently vigorous and also feared that those orders would be upset by the courts...
...brothers, starting out as the proprietors of the Kiassy Kampus Kleaners of Lombardy College, leave this job when they make themselves the custodians of an oil-rich Rodskin's $10,000 a day estate. While the Indian democratically mingles with the boys on the grid as their star back, the quarterback, whose position he takes (only once seen without a large capital "L" on his chest) has his troubles with the coach's blonde daughter, Gloria Stuart...
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending...
...lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records. It is the biggest oil evaporator tower in existence. Best man to build it, Stanolind found, was Morris W. Kellogg of Jersey City. From Lukens Steel Co. Mr. Kellogg...
...remove invisible internal stresses from the steel, the mammoth tank was rolled into a vast annealing furnace, where oil burners made it red hot. Workmen inched the completed 230-ton tank out of the Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...