Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several hours later found us squated around our open camp fire, inspecting our equipment for the following day. We scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper...
...believe, and instruct all my service men, that skis should be cleaned down to the bare wood, which must be absolutely dry. Then after several applications of oil have been absorbed. Klister should be burned in with a blow torch. This completes the base and the ski is ready...
Some 20 years ago a high-calibre Colombian general named Virgilio Barco journeyed to Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold...
Carib Syndicate's interest, now 21%, has furnished about the only continuity in the subsequent colorful Barco story. Promoter MacFadden has long since been out of the company. Oilman Doherty tired of jungle oil in 1926, sold out his majority interest to Andrew William Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. Then the concession was canceled, litigated, finally granted anew. This year, with not a barrel of oil yet delivered from the fabulous concession, Mr. Mellon sold out to Texas Corp. and Socony-Vacuum for some $12,500,000 (TIME...
...fifth interest, that interest would be gradually shaved down to an insignificant figure. At the Barco table on one side was Texaco's Chairman Torkild Rieber with $473,000,-000 in assets beside him, on the other Socony's President John Albert Brown with a stack of oil chips worth...