Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan of $75,000,000; 2) British capital to develop Rumania's oil fields; 3) increased British purchases of Rumanian oil and wheat; 4) the raising of the representative of the two nations from ministerial to ambassadorial status. He reputedly received nothing, although some sources speculated that Britain was considering an increase in her Rumanian purchases...
...Crown Prince canceled tentative plans for a longer private stay, headed back to Bucharest. On the way the King was expected to call on Chancellor Hitler and German economic experts, who will probably lose no time in reminding him that a recent German offer to develop Rumanian oil fields and purchase Rumania's entire wheat crop for the next two years, in exchange for German manufactured goods, still stands. But they have no money to lend...
Mechanical pumps have a certain limit beyond which they cannot decrease the vacuum chamber pressure any further. So Dr. Hickman has designed a sort of chemical pump which goes to work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...
...only did the Federal Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice revealed that it was sniffing monopoly spoor in the building-trade industry; and in Chicago Mr. Arnold's bloodhounds treed the biggest monopoly catch since the oil industry went on trial in Madison year ago-the milk and ice cream industry...
...activity among traders. When the State Department first announced its intention of negotiating the British and Canadian pacts last November, buyers began to order from hand to mouth, waiting to see what would happen. With the fog lifted last week, U. S. manufacturers of office equipment, electrical appliances, tractors, oil pumps, leather goods, silk hosiery charted plans to benefit by the most favorable concessions in the pacts. Automobile manufacturers, although disappointed at not getting duty concessions, thought that gains for U. S. farmers might mean an improved domestic market for motors...