Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 623 Special Agents and Accountants now in the field there is an amazing diversity of occupational backgrounds. Sixty-three are experienced farmers, 17 are aviators, 17 newshawks, one a baker, seven professional baseball players, one a surveyor, one an oil gauger, 37 with banking experience. Two were radio announcers. ("That's the pair they ought to shoot," jests Director Hoover...
...trade. Her excess of imports over exports for the first five months of this year was 1,157,000,000 lire ($95,552,500). Today II Duce is seeking a solution by the conquest of Ethiopia reported by recent geological surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped earthly riches (TIME, Feb. 25). He was last week ready literally to defend the lira with Italian blood. Abruptly by a super-drastic step he placed Italy's entire gold resources under his Dictator's thumb...
Died. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 55, heir to Standard Oil millions, owner of the "world's largest private swimming pool," thrice-married socialite; after long illness; in Southampton...
...progression up to $500 on the tenth and each additional store. Since California has only 9,000 chain stores compared to 77,000 individual stores, the State Assembly, with a whoop and a halloa, passed the bill 68-to-8. When the bill reached the State Senate, the great oil lobby swung into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker...
Grateful to U. S. oil companies with Mexican interests which customarily pay the bills of its football teams, the University of Mexico made Harry Ford Sinclair an Honorary Alumnus...