Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city washed out the right of way at Clear Creek, near the Little Miami River. Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged. An even greater danger threatened the waterfront when oil tanks in Mill Creek Valley tore loose from their foundations, began floating around and slopping their fluid on the rising waters...
...smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business in the State). The crop destruction had only one peer, the Great Freeze of 1913-In that year, according...
...inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
Ambitious Charles Hayden made it his habit to get to work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...