Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends if I would not drop around with the New Orleans oysters and fry some of them for them in good Louisiana style and way. So, Mr. President, I bought a frying pan about 8 inches deep . . . and I bought a 10-pound bucket of cotton-seed-oil lard. ... I took the oysters, Mr. President, the way they should be taken, and laid them out on a muslin cloth, about twelve of them, and then you pull the cloth over and you dry the oysters. You dry them, you see, first with a muslin cloth, and then you take...
...North American such a wild terrain does not seem economically worth fighting for. Perhaps it has oil. Perhaps Bolivia, cut off from the Pacific by Chile 52 years ago, needs an outlet across the northern Chaco to the navigable Paraguay River. However, landlocked Bolivia already has far better outlets: by railroad across Chile to the coast; by railroad to the navigable reaches of the Amazon in Brazil. The Gran Chaco War was wholly a peoples' war, begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes...
Under I. T. & T. management Postal persuaded the telephone companies to handle its telegrams on the same basis as Western Union's: charged to the sender's telephone bill. It arranged with several Standard Oil companies to have filling stations accept messages. It developed its radio business, modernized transmission equipment, spruced up its messenger boys. It sought additional revenues in the distribution of bus. theatre and airline tickets...
...Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation serves a wide range of basic industries throughout the country, including steel, agriculture, oil, textiles, glass, soap, building and roadmaking. This statement may be of interest in connection with the basic industrial situation in the U. S. during the last month...
Dobbs was a U. S. bum whose wits and luck kept him just a step from the gutter in a Mexican seaport town. The oil boom was dwindling, his luck was beginning to go too, when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each...