Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases used by the British Navy are next door to Albania; beyond the Balkans are the rich oil fields, the coveted markets of the Near East...
...Arab State of Iraq is as juicy with oil as an olive. So far it has hung on the British economic tree, but last week Britain, experienced as it is in handling olive branches, began to be afraid the Iraq olive would fall...
...Mosul, an oil centre and political hotspot 260 miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, natives were told by agitators that the British had done away with their King. At high noon, an angry mob of Iraqi rushed the city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they...
Since studious, balding Clare Bunch, 36, took over St. Louis' Monocoupe Corp. four years ago and found only $20 in the bank account, he has made things hum at that tidy little airplane factory. Oil-stained apostle of hard work, he slept in the plant, did all his own test-flying, worked with the factory hands when he was not busy at the drawing board improving the basic Monocoupe, a two-seated monoplane ($3,875), or designing a bigger two-engined job. Last week, with the bank account considerably more than $20, Clare Bunch lifted his nose from...
...some of the New York Yankees, Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with 14 major-league teams (all but the Boston Bees and Red Sox) and most of the minors, playing their hearts...