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...present railroad law invites mergers for the sake of efficiency, provided that they do not destroy a reasonable competition, and the Interstate Commerce Commission will consider the proposed merger in this light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoivell Howls | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

Captain S. F. Clark, coach of the University poloists declared last night that the tournament would undoubtedly be held this year even though no definite arrangements have been made. In his opinion college polo has been developed far enough to resist any attempts to destroy it. The sport in colleges is developing young players and furnishing men to compete on teams after they leave college. The U. S. P. A. realizes this, Captain Clark declared and so is anxious to have the intercollegiate tournament made an annual affair and placed on a definite basis. Captain Clark intends to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAY NOT PLAY COLLEGE POLO SERIES THIS YEAR | 2/10/1925 | See Source »

...Charles become an integral part of the college, and built up according in some plan that will do justice to the beauty of the river site. Such a plan was printed in the Alumni Bulletin of November 20, 1924. A ten-story modern building in its midst would destroy the possibility of its ever being carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speed Thee, Little Wish | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

...Government, however, is sufficiently strong to destroy the Aventine opposition entirely. I solemnly bind myself within 48 hours of this speech to clear up the political situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flaming Oratory | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Accordingly, the Treasury Department requested Congress for $275,000 to be used to destroy an outbreak of plague among rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 1,000 Guilders | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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