Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower was a former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed it, but with bad scholarship dubbed it "The Wooden Horse." * After...
...England's aristocrats open their social round, "The London Season," on Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy, this year April 30. Next day and for the rest of the Coronation Season anyone, on payment of 40?, can visit this same show, view the year's crop of oil paintings and sculpture in which Royal Academicians have done members of the Royal Family, peerage, beerage, their children, estates, horses, cattle, dogs, canaries, mice...
...past several years the demand for qualified research chemists has far exceeded the supply, Industrial physicists, on the other hand, have found few openings in research, except that recently those prepared in electronics and communication engineering have found increasing opportunity in radio companies and in geophysical research for the oil companies. Industry appears not to have fully awakened to the possibilities of physical research, but the awareness is gaining slowly. Metallurgists are in demand from the steel companies when business is good, and the demand for these men somewhat exceeds the supply of them at present. Biological research...
Sued. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 31, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil; for $70,000 damages; by his secretary, Edward Benson, who claimed that Rogers had walloped him on the head, inflicting a brain concussion, when he asked why he was being fired; in Manhattan...
With the shortest route between Kansas City and Port Arthur on the Gulf of Mexico, the K.C.S. does a good business each year carrying coal, oil and farm products. It joins the L. & A. at Shreveport. The man who built the Kansas City Southern into a first-class railroad was bush-bearded old Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R.R., ousted from his post of stewardship on the K.C.S. last year by Paine, Webber after a long-drawn-out fight at the corporate polls...