Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold and fearless words of the report without a feeling of pride, surely not unpardonable, in our public and parliamentary traditions," cried the Labor Daily Herald. "For comparison," boomed the Conservative Daily Express, "you need to [recall] the Stavisky Scandal in France and the United States Teapot Dome oil scandals, which dragged on for years." In editorials of modest understatement, Fleet Street reminded everyone that only six weeks had elapsed since the Budget leaked- another record for British Justice, swift & sure...
Amarillo is a cow, oil & gas town put on the map by the uncomplimentary comments of Gene Howe, editor of its Globe-News, on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden. Seven miles away lies a Federal gas processing plant which produces most of the world's helium. Waco makes its living from cotton, has a Cotton Palace, an annual Cotton Festival and Baylor University. "Dr. Pepper," the South's famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep...
...gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much to see, standing in a few clumps...
...Bermuda's government aquarium a pair of Galapagos penguins, presented by Vincent Astor three years ago and lately fed wheat-germ oil, produced two eggs, which both hatched last week-first captive penguin hatch recorded...
...Standard Oil of New Jersey last week borrowed $85,000,000 for a period of 25 years. The money will be used to retire an issue of 5% preferred stock of a subsidiary called Standard Oil Export Corp. (TIME, May 18). Only $30,000,000 worth of Standard's new bonds were offered to the public, the rest having been bought by various Rockefeller interests including the Spelman Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and the China Medical Board. But the most notable fact about this notable financing was that Standard borrowed the money at the lowest interest rate ever paid...