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...Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return...
...Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...
...Armstrong expects to have the Langley completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain travelers on man's newest conquest of an element. As the operation of the Langley makes money, he will (and he has the money in provision to do so) construct eight similar seadromes to be strung 375 miles apart between the 35th and 40th parallels, north latitude, between Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe and convenient airplane passage across the ocean, direct competition with both sea ships...
...Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...