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...COAST ARTILLERY CORPS...
Nevertheless, the bureau is able to give some timely tints to the lovelorn. Despite the admittedly "high cost of loving" it is nothing compared to the high coast of remaining single. By the simple process of taking a wife, a man may jump his exemption from $1,000 to $2,000 which virtually makes the ordinary citizen's income tax-free. Many a blushing June bride has been hustled to the alter in the middle of December to gain the $2,000 exemption for the entire year. Love as usual has found a way to surmount all obstacles...
...field in the sprints is one of the best ever entered in a college meet. It is in the 100 and 220-yard dashes that the invaders from the Pacific coast are strongest, and they are expected to pick up a number of points in these events. Hutchinson, who is running for California, finished second to Paddock when he equalled the world's record for the 100, and he has been clocked in 9 4-5 seconds. Brown, of Princeton, who won the race last year, has graduated, but Gourdin, who got second, will have to race against Wells...
...prosperity of a country depends on two things: her natural resources, and the means of getting these to market. China has almost unlimited resources; the interior of the country is one of the greatest agricultural districts in the world. Solely because of the lack of transportation, people on the coast starve, while in the interior there is so much extra grain that it is burned as fuel...
...bulk of the known oil deposits in the Republic lie in three fields; one on the northwestern coast, which has not proved to be extensive, and two in the interior, which are among the most promising field in the whole of Latin America, not excepting Mexico. One of these interior fields, the two million acre DeMares concession lies about four hundred miles up the Magdalena Valley, near the river town of Puerto Wilches. The Tropical Oil Company of Pittsburg which had been operating that concession, was amalgamated early in 1920 with the International Petroleum Company, a Canadian subsidiary...