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...Significance. The earliest dreams of mankind concern an imagined Earthly Paradise. Here is the Earthly Paradise of one of the most brilliant, varied and active minds of our time. The prescription will not suit all palates, but should, nevertheless, prove stimulating and provocative to anyone not a moron. A gorgeous but rigid dream?the acme of possible scientific and eugenic perfection?a fascinating and plausible illusion. And yet?in spite of all the merits of the book?one wonders at times. Can Heaven-on-Earth, if possible, prove quite so efficiently readymade...
Clifton Powell Fordyce '23, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, has been appointed Secretary of the Governing Board of the Harvard Union for the year 1923-24. He will take the position left vacant by Francis B. Foster '17, who has resigned, to join an engineering concern in New York, after two years of service under the title of Graduate Manager of the Union...
Superficially it would appear that the Standard Oil, which was dissolved into 38 separate companies in 1911 by order of the U. S. Supreme Court, was an incoherent concern. Among the disjuncta membra of 1911 are the Anglo-American Oil Co., the Atlantic Refining Co., Borne, Serymser Co., Buckeye Pipe Line Co., Crescent Pipe Line Co., Cumberland Pipe Line Co., Eureka Pipe Line Co., Galena-Signal Oil Co., Illinois Pipe Line Co., Indiana Pipe Line Co., National Transit Co., National Transit Pump and Machinery Co., New York Transit Co., Northern Pipe Line Co., Ohio Oil Co., Mid-Kansas...
Past History. The origin of the Standard Oil monopoly, for practical monopoly it still is, was the foundation of a refinery in Cleveland by an Englishman named Samuel Andrews in 1862. John D. Rockefeller invested $4,000 in the venture. In 1867 the concern was organized under the name of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler. In 1870 it was incorporated as the Standard Oil Com-pany of Ohio, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The parties interested were John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Steven V. Harkness and William Rockefeller...
...scheme was worked out whereby the railroads gave the Standard Oil secret rebates. This was done through the notorious South Improvement Co., a concern organ-ized by Rockefeller, which bought a charter with the right to carry on any kind of business in any country and in any way. The rebates were secured by arrangements with Vanderbilt and Clark of the New York Central, Jay Gould and General McClellan of the Erie, and Thompson and Scott of the Pennsylvania...