Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Stephen Arnold ("Little Giant") Douglas and President James Buchanan had not quarreled over slavery in Kansas, a united Democracy would have nominated Douglas for President at Charleston...
Oklahoma- An old illness of the sick giant lies in the rich Oklahoma City field, now under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
Temperature. The chart of the U. S. oil giant's condition is a price chart. In California last week came the third drastic price-cut in three weeks. High-grade California oil sells in Los Angeles now for 35? a barrel against $1.48 at the start of the year. Mid-Continent oil is selling at 53? against 81? at the first of the year. Last week gasoline stocks reached a new high for the year of 47,444,000 bbl. against 42,818.000 bbl. Jan. 1 and 55,239,000 bbl. a year ago. Refineries were operating...
...Manhattan last week-Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Combined Shows, in every sense the Greatest Show on Earth. This year's premiere was a little saddened by the absence of Lillian Leitzel, the small, muscular lady who used to do more than 200 one-handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths...
...William M. Mann, director of National Zoological Park at Washington, was almost as proud. Long has he tried to hatch condors, the giant American vultures, in his aviary. But his only female sometimes breaks her eggs; sometimes they have been sterile...