Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country, and owing to tax immunities the Egyptian Government is deprived of what it considered a large legitimate income. The U. S. has nearly $15,000,000 invested there, represented by the American University of Cairo, a hospital, mission schools and such companies as General Motors and Socony-Vacuum Oil...
Meantime in Texas, President Harvey C. Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers was less concerned with prospective A. F. of L. competition than with his testy reception by hot-tempered Texans. Loosing a warning blast against the Sit-Down last fortnight, young Governor "Jimmy" Allred barked: "We are not going to permit the transfer of disgraceful episodes in other States to Texas. In other words, we are not going to play 'Michigan.' " President Fremming, a bulky onetime University of Washington footballer who knows that a Sit-Down in an oil field...
...popular Instructor Walsh was requested by most enrollees, popular Instructor Sweezy ranking second. Instructor Walsh's course on Labor Problems has jumped from 44 to 127 members in three years, and he is at the moment busy preparing for press a book on the labor policies of Standard Oil Co., which he investigated on a Wertheim Research Fellowship last summer. Confronted with these arguments, President Conant replied that the budget of the economics department was "clogged up," that so far as Harvard was concerned the matter was closed...
Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (The Unending) scoffed at the "mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin...
...Green did everything he said he would. He made his Texas Midland a model railroad boasting the first electrically-lighted coaches in the State. Any promising enterprise attracted his backing: cattle and farm lands, business buildings, oil wells, mines. And in nearly every venture he was successful. His hobbies were innumerable: racing automobiles, photography, boll-weevil eradication, stamps (his collection was the world's largest), astronomy...