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That the land between Broadway and Cambridge Streets where the Rogers Building is located is the best site for a fire station to cover the University district has been disputed by some experts, Lovejoy stated. Fires occur most frequently in the area near the river, among the smaller wooden frame buildings, and these must be reached through crowded Quincy and Brattle Squares...
...Manchuria, comprising the Three Eastern Provinces of China with an area of 363,700 square miles and a population of nearly 30,000,000, has been the paramount object of Japanese expansion for about thirty years. The South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese Government-controlled concern, led the exploitation of the country with a view to monopolizing all economic and industrial enterprises and crushing the interests of the Chinese themselves. In recent years, however, the Chinese have been developing their own industries and Japan felt aggrieved, as she saw they would obstruct her grandiose schemes. Not a few Japanese urged...
...some 1,800 wells in the great sprawling East Texas field. It did not gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days Governor Sterling lifted martial law in four counties to allow the State Railroad Commission to apply a new proration order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field's maximum "wild" production...
...Richmond factory, production was increased to 14 hours a day. The present production of 15,000,000 a week goes mostly to New England, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan. A few United Cigar and Schulte stores handle Paul Jones in Manhattan and it is to this area that the increased production is expected to go, with other big cities to be added later. Although Paul Jones may be featured in window| displays Philip Morris & Co. still does-ot expect to advertise, hopes to prove the 10? price alone will reap its reward...
...London Stock Exchange occupies a triangular area between Throgmorton Street, Bartholomew Lane and Old Broad Street. It is drabbish outside, domed above, spacious within. The Stock Exchange is a private corporation with some 2,700 shareholders, nearly all of whom are among the 4,000 members. The membership is divided between brokers proper, acting as agents on a commission basis, and jobbers who buy and sell, trade on their own account. One man cannot be both...