Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into which he had got the U. S. Last month, trying to back up the State Department's declaration that shipments of war materials to Italy were contrary to the spirit of the Neutrality Resolution, he had succeeded in giving the Press the clear-cut impression that as Oil Administrator he was opposed to shipments of oil to Italy (TIME, Dec. 2). This angered Italy, embarrassed the State Department, left the Administration out on a limb when the League of Nations postponed Oil Sanctions. Last week Secretary Ickes called in newshawks, pulled out the stenographic report of his previous...
That afternoon when the Press announced that the U. S. had changed its oil export policy Secretary Ickes again found himself in an embarrassment. Hastily he rushed out an explanation of his explanation: "I now observe that [my] effort to clarify a previous misunderstanding has been itself misinterpreted in some quarters. ... I have no intimation ... of any change in the Government's policy...
...vain Labor M.P.'s stormed that the Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government is oleaginous to the point that, while arousing the League to impose sanctions, it is largely supplying Italy with oil through the petroleum companies it controls or owns. The Lords: ¶ Spent last week the first $5,000 of an estimated $50,000 which they will spend on the trial of Lord de Clifford commencing this week. Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant...
...public interest and therefore not to be concealed. Date of publication coincided with the Congress of American Industry (see p. 67) meeting in Manhattan; featured firm was General Motors whose President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was keynoter of the industrialists' session. Top salaries at Bethlehem Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Corn Products. 86 other corporations were also dragged out for public view...
...time records. Ward's October sales were better even than sales of December 1929, previous all-time high. ¶ Tennessee Valley Authority ordered another 36,000-kva. generator from General Electric. Cost: $415,000. ¶ Pan American Petroleum ordered from Foster Wheeler, makers of equipment for oil refineries, a $1,500,000 polymerization plant. Gasoline polymerization is a method of producing gasoline from natural or refinery gas by combining the light gas molecules into heavier gasoline molecules. ¶ Net October income of U. S. railroads was estimated at $32,000,000, about one-half as much money...