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...rostrum to the stiff high-backed chair which holds the Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State's 15th district, an area the size of New York State stretching along the Rio Grande from above Eagle Pass to Brownsville on the Gulf...
First State to start restocking its forests with game was Pennsylvania, which in 1906 bought from Michigan 50 deer, added more in subsequent years. A system of State-owned refuges was developed, each refuge surrounded by an area on which hunting could be regulated by State law. Under this protection Pennsylvania's deer multiplied rapidly. Last week, with 80,000 acres of refuges, 1,800,000 acres of hunting ground, and a herd estimated at 1,000,000, Pennsylvania had several hundred thousand deer too many...
...orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game beyond the feeding possibilities of an area may not only result in . . . destruction of the game . . . but also . . . destruction for years to come of all possibilities of game restoration...
...Tioga properties into a holding company called Lycoming United Natural Gas Corp. It is understood that Standard Oil will dominate the field by ownership of 50% of Lycoming United stock, followed by 30% for Columbia Gas, 20% for Benedum-Trees. The market Lycoming United will serve is the Syracuse area, active industrial district directly north of Tioga, where there is a potential annual demand for 10 billion cu. ft. (Buffalo, second biggest city in New York, has had natural gas service for several years from the Wayne-Dundee field in the western part of the State. New York City...
...Poland was made up of poor peasants spread thinly over a wide area...