Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough to set him off into a Stalinist rage against "counterrevolutionary tactics...
...week Government services were being supplied with oil by the Government-owned Petromex, whose employes do not enjoy the legal right to strike. But with about $60,000 a day in oil taxes being nicked from his budget, Labor-loving President Lázaro Cárdenas finally persuaded the strikers to go back to work, let a Federal conciliation board hammer out a settlement...
...Texas, an "East Dallas Special" is a thin, sharp knife wielded by Negro desperadoes. An East Texas Special is the fat, dull extra-section edition of the Longview News, published annually to celebrate the "natural or man-made resources of East Texas," among which are oil, roses, yams, timber, tomatoes, ribbon cane. Last year, the News claimed the world's record for a daily's volume with 350 pages. Last week its East Texas news, boosting editorials and local advertising swelled up to 370 pages, a new high...
...framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...
...deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated Oil Corp...