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...time of Christ. Methodists feel a Methodist bishop is just a plain man in an ordi- nary business suit who puts "Bishop" rather than "Rt. Rev." or "Most Rev." before his name. He is not attached for life to any one diocese but may be transferred from one Methodist "area" to an-other by the conference which elects him. Last week in Columbus, Ohio the 3 2nd quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected by a two-thirds majority of the 600 conference delegates five new bishops who were consecrated by a simple laying-on of hands...
...Rodessa oil gushed into United Gas's slush pits last July it came from 6,000 feet down. Two months later a 25,000-barrel well brought in a mile and a half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than 100 new wells have shown Rodessa's extent to be at least 10,000 acres in a narrow band lying diagonally across Louisiana's northwest corner from Arkansans on the north to Texas onthe west, with a potential production of about...
...expedition is to explore map, and study an area of some 3000 square miles in a region that is probably farther from a railroad than any other point in the United States. Dr. Charles D. N. Winning of New York University will receive applications sent to him at the Explorer's club, New York City...
Welch of the Shanghai area; John W. Robinson of Southern Asia ; Eben Samuel Johnson of Africa; Frederick Thomas Keeney of Atlanta; Matthew Wesley Clair (Negro) of Covington, Ky. ; George Amos Miller of Central & South America...
...concession laws. Standard's 356-mi. Andean Pipe Line from its De Mares Concession to Cartagena on the Caribbean has carried virtually all the oil Colombia has ever produced, less than 175,000,000 bbl. Most famed of Colombia's undeveloped concessions is the Barco, covering an area larger than that of Rhode Island. Originally granted to the late General Virgilio Barco, an able Colombian who had grown rich in such varied activities as cattle, sugar, matches, liquor, the Barco Concession has had a purple history. After sinking more than $100,000 of his personal fortune in development...