Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference about my conviction is apt to give an incorrect impression. It is a fact that I was for several years engaged as a geologist to find potential oil fields in Wyoming. The acreage thus acquired was placed into a developing company, which is today a highly successful corporation, bearing my name. It is a fact that I entered Texas in the boom days at the end of the war. It is a fact that I was tried and convicted for overstating potential values in prospective oil fields. It is a fact that I was sent to prison...
...also a fact that the potential oil lands which I had acquired were not fully tested and were stamped as practically worthless by the prosecution. It is a fact, and this has not been repeated by those who have tried to defame me, that some of the lands under question have since produced wealth of millions, far beyond the wildest assertions which I had made in literature and letters of the company...
...have never in my life taken a penny that did not belong to me, and I am convinced today, as I was in 1923, that my judgment in regard to every phase of my oil development was sound...
...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
...many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold-preventive...