Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time, the swordlike blast, whistling 90 miles per hour, laid waste six thickly populated square miles. School roofs flew. A home for crippled children and a whole street of modest dwellings were laid open like dolls' houses, the walls being sucked off outwards by the tornadic vacuum. Steeples crashed, autos slid, trees swept by, scantlings whizzed, people who failed to lie prone were knocked so and dragged along...
...requires 17 days to ship oil from U. S. ports to those near East communities which Vacuum Oil and Standard of N. Y. intend to supply with the oil they buy from Russia...
...Vacuum Oil Co. believes that trade contacts with Russia will make for wholesome reconstruction, and, further, that it is only common sense to recognize that Russia is the economic source of supply for certain markets. An opportunity given to Russia to dispose of some of its surplus in its natural markets will avoid such surplus being forced into competition with American products in markets where transportation costs are in favor of the United States...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...Vacuum and Standard of New York state the truth, namely, that, as they fancy it pays them better to deal in cheap Russian oil, they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly...