Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Rumania, having recently been sewed up by Britain and France with offers to buy her oil at good prices, abruptly broke off the flirtation with Germany which last year carried King Carol almost into Adolf Hitler's camp, and gave Rumania briefly a violently Jew-baiting pro-Nazi cabinet...
...happened to many a plane in Hell's Angels when Howard Hughes was putting an inherited fortune made from oil-well drills into movies instead of aviation, this foolproof ocean-spanning plane had been forced down, that contingency was provided for, too. Aboard were two inflatable rubber rafts, with stocks of water, "nose cups" to condense breath into emergency water supply, concentrated rations, a can opener. To inflate the rafts there were cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when...
...years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...
...plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...week at Association galleries on the banks of the Mystic River. Cut more closely to the traditional pattern of summer shows than any other, with tea served on Thursday and young villagers holding square dances in the gallery, the Mystic exhibition was nevertheless far from stuffy, included an excellent oil by Kenneth Bates, a cocktail-hour scene At Five (see cut) by Robert Philipp, whose Dust to Dust won first honorable mention at last year's Carnegie International...