Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costing from $175 to $600, which Son Robert took to get their wealthy friend, Orendorff, freed. Then came the exciting word that he had been released. Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested $76,890. From other investors the Aults got some $40,000 more...
...Aggrandizer" Hitler's empire expanded week to within about 75 miles of the rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
...Switzerland were last week denied.) The Crown Prince's strong-willed father, Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, had arranged the match so as to bring together not only Egypt and Iran but also two great Moslem sects, the Sunni and Shiah, which for years have been as unmixable as oil and water...
...Artist George Grosz has made small capital of his fame as No. 1 War satirist and scourge of post-War vice in Germany. Settled in Douglaston, L. I. with his wife and two small sons, Artist Grosz instead apprenticed himself to the art of oil painting in 1934, has worked hard at it ever since. Last year his explosive Street Fight stirred visitors at a Whitney Museum annual (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938); single "Studies in Textures" have appeared elsewhere. Last autumn George Grosz became a U. S. citizen. This week he was finally ready for his first one-man show...
...room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...