Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help of the "bloody Bolshies" and their walks are mostly taken in the Embassy's high-walled garden. This week Ambassador & Mrs. Davies...
...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...
...first appearance on the U. S. screen, Actor Walbrook's performance suggests that he will be almost as good an investment for the long pull as the picture is for a quick turn. Most spectacular shot: Ogareff's signal to his troops to charge Irkutsk-an oil-flooded river in flames below the walls...
Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays...
Haled before the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington last week was President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Not afoul of SEC was the country's biggest oil company. The Commission merely wanted Mr. Teagle to answer a question which he himself had asked in a letter to Frederick H. Bedford Jr., a working Standard director: Why did Standard "happen to be so directly interested" in a protective committee for defaulted bonds of the Republic of Colombia...