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...Only the Jews have money, and only a few of them. Anti-Semitism runs high. The old wealthy and middle-class people are practically wiped out. A few low-grade nouveaux riches take their place...
Muscle Shoals. Use of the plant at once for manufacture of nitrates needed for munitions of war and especially for production of cheaper and higher grade fertiliser, without limit...
Alvaro Obregon, Mexican President: "Near Tepic, State of Nayarit, I narrowly escaped death, when several cars of a train in which I was traveling became uncoupled from the engine on a steep grade. Carrying me, the cars dashed madly down the incline for several hundred yards, eventually came to a halt...
...year of this treatment, it is said, the petroleum left in the pockets is forced toward the old well-shafts, and can be pumped out in considerable quantities. New York State owns extensive though run-down oil fields in Allegheny and Cattaraugus Counties; it is estimated that the high grade oil obtainable there through the new flooding process will cost only $2 a barrel to extract, and can readily be sold for twice that sum. The State geologists estimate the recoverable oil in these fields as being worth $510 millions, with a possibility of $270 millions profit to the State...
Although many of the annual spreads in Cambridge have been forced to raise their prices this year the Phillips Brooks House Committee has been able to lower the price of its tickets to $1.10 each, without involving any change in the menu or services of the same high grade caterer who handled the refreshments last year. This reduction, in the face of rising prices elsewhere, is explained by the fact that the price of last year's tickets, which was based on cost, with no profit accruing to Phillips Brooks House, did not anticipate such a heavy attendance. With...