Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that multi-millionaire sank with the S. S. Titanic (1912). During the War, he organized the War Credits Board. He served as chairman of the committee for the reorganization of the Army General Staff. Currently Mr. Osborn, 52, having resigned directorates in a finance company, a printing company, an oil company, is a director of the Western Pacific Railroad...
Five days later a fourth figure popped into what loomed as the biggest corporate anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. The distinguished kibitzer was Pittsburgh's Federal District Judge Robert Murray Gibson, 67, and his surprise move was to issue a temporary order restraining Attorney General Cummings and his subordinates from pursuing their action against Alcoa. In their petition for the order, Aluminum Co. attorneys had asserted that: 1) the Attorney General should have sued the company in Pittsburgh where its head offices are," instead of in Manhattan; 2) the charges were...
...this week in the harbor of Honolulu and at Pearl Harbor, the U. S. fleet currently sails for California. To their bases at San Diego and Long Beach are ordered 42 destroyers, 20 submarines, 12 minesweepers, three destroyer tenders, three submarine tenders, one rescue vessel, one repair ship, four oil-carriers, two storeships, the hospital ship, and three auxiliaries. To San Francisco for the May 28 dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge go the fleet's ten battleships, four aircraft carriers, 14 heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and four plane guard destroyers...
Apotheosis, Last week before an audience of the world's great. Cosmo Gordon Lang achieved the biggest attainable goal of a British prelate. He crowned a King and with holy oil anointed him a demi-priest in God's service. And it was a King of whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped...
...time Asch reached Salt Lake City, after imbibing with oil drillers in a hotel room and looking over the Colorado sugar beet fields, his insides felt jolted loose and he was beginning to have nightmares in which he saw himself being mangled in a nation-wide traffic smashup...