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...Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin to be surveyor-in-chief. Stocky, prosaic Surveyor Hedin planned last week to take over his eight-month...
...1/10 of 1% tax on the capital stock of corporations, with corporations at liberty to fix their own value...
...production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...
Oilmen heard, however, that the P. C. C. had decided to ask President Roosevelt this week to go ahead and price-fix. The ratio tentatively set is a barrel of crude at 18½-times the price of gasoline per gallon...
...more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess I can get by on four hundred hard money." "Wull, good luck John," Mr. Clinton wished as his car rattled away: John returned to his wood pile. The September sun poured upon his broad back...