Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...untouched. Federal Judge Thomas Whitfield Davidson in Dallas, ruling last month on a writ of habeas corpus in the "hot oil" case, declared that Mayor Maestri was "just as guilty" as Seymour Weiss and Richard Leche...
...what part of Poland Russia intended to get-i.e., the Polish Ukraine, the northeast area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then suddenly, as the Germans struck southward toward Polish oil fields, cutting off Polish retreat to Rumania, getting within 80 miles of the Russian frontier, Russian troops crossed the Polish border on a 500-mi. front...
...about as much trouble as any country south of the Rio Grande. With a presidential election coming up next year that is almost sure to cause trouble, Mexico was faced with another period of money shortage. Germany had lately been buying some $2,000,000 worth of expropriated oil a month up to September 1. The Mexican Government missed the cash. The manufactured goods Mexico had been getting from the Reich she stopped getting, leaving the market to the U. S., with which Mexico is reluctant to trade. Then there was trouble about the nine refugee ships in her harbors...
...Poland produces only 500,000 tons of oil a year, and oil is Germany's greatest need. Her peacetime imports were 4,000,000 tons, and to run her war machine she will probably need 8,000,000 tons. Even a light French motorized division needs 423 gallons of gasoline to move a mile, and Germany's Panzerdimsionen with tanks and armored trucks burn many times that much fuel. Darting in and out, operating far from base and covering scores of miles on each raid, their refueling problem becomes tremendous. If Germany is to fight a long...
Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...