Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...
...power to override one of the ablest members of the House of Representatives and his subcommittee-I refer to the gentleman from Virginia [Clifton Alexander Woodrum]. A week ago, according to the press, he came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House resent...
Prime Minister Chamberlain next showed the King a list of his new Cabinet and sub-Cabinet down to the most obscure, unpaid assistant Government whip. At 5 p. m. that same day every one of these was summoned to the Palace to take his oath of office in strict order of precedence. A meeting of the Privy Council (His Majesty's advisers, including the whole Cabinet) was then held...
...from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such a hullabaloo that a law was passed forbidding all tideland drilling. Then in 1933 oil engineers devised a new method of drilling called "whip-stocking," which enabled oil companies to drill on a slant, tap oil pools as much as 1,000 ft. away...
This almost perfect technique for extracting oil from the State's underwater territory was not neglected by California oil companies. By 1934 about 100 wells had been drilled by independent companies on town lots at Huntington Beach, whip-stocked down through beach property owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and out into the State oil pool. Caught at this, the companies were penalized only by being forced to pay 14% royalties or less on the stolen oil. Next year a special investigating committee found that Standard had also been tapping the State pool with vertical wells. Standard offered...