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...spirit and a presence of error in judgement, such as the failure to meet Dartmouth's continual plays off the short side of the line. Always Harvard unbalanced its line when the Green did, and 90 per cent of the time the play came smashing through the short area, where the Crimson has short-handed itself...
...Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case he was given the Indianapolis area...
...showing is so many billboards in a city area. The buyer may buy a showing in one community or 17,000 showings in 17,000 communities; or one-half or one-quarter showings. In every case the rate is the same-$7.80 per month for each regular billboard, $35 per month for each illuminated. Before the Depression the volume of outdoor advertising in the U. S. ran about $75,000,000 annually. This year it will foot up to some $38,000,000, of which $30,000,000 is national advertising. There are still over 200,000 billboards (cost...
Cocky Japan is again attempting to stir up strife in the highly unstable Pacific area, Following her egotistical demands for equality with Britain and the United States, she now announces a plan for strict government control of a monopolistic nature over the oil business of her sponsored empire in Manchukuo. Not only does this policy contravene the "open door" provisions of the Washington Treaty but it also demonstrates Japan's willingness to risk the hostility of the great nations by attacking them in their vulnerable spot--their purses...
...Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher. Today the Texas Railroad Commission, which attempts to control the flood, estimates that if each & every one of the 14,000 wells in the East Texas Field were opened wide for one hour, they...