Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
...such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
Whopping bond issues already filed or under consideration include $60,000,000 for Shell Union Oil; $65,000,000 for National Dairy Products; $90,000,000 for Pacific Gas & Electric; $70,000,000 for Virginian Railway; $92,000,000 for Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...
...smelters, and acquiring many a competitor in the course of its long and lucrative life, National Lead is probably responsible for at least half the U. S. output of painters' materials. Best known product is Dutch Boy white lead - paint base made of lead carbonate and lin seed oil. Add more linseed oil, turpentine and drier, and the paint is ready to apply. Add various tinting materials and the white paint assumes any desired color. National Lead aLso makes red lead, used most conspicuously as an anti-rust coating for structural steel. It has a line of lead alloys...
...many writers of today are going bitter on us," continued the poet. "I am shocked at the amount of really vitriolic, filthy sarcasm which is published today: I'm glad I have enough oil in my feathers to disregard it! Much of it, I feel, comes from the sense of personal frustration and tragedy which accompanies the feeling that one has 'sold out' to the forces of materialism which keep prodding an author to 'produce.' Many writers yield to the publishers' request for a second book to meet the demand caused by the popularity of a successful first attempt...