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...bankrupt companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." He bought up some 300 dry oil wells, claimed a capitalization of $380,000,000, sold stock by mail. Excerpts from the Cook sales letters: "We say it with cash dividend checks, not with flowers." "Oldfashioned hell is too good for the fake oil promoter, the most contemptible human rodent that ever breathed God's pure air." "We have the greatest oil pool in Texas." Ignorant "investors" lost $4,000,000 in the scheme. Where Dr. Cook claimed to have two great gushers producing...
...general, three who thought it was, one who thought it was increasing. Declared Dr. Poling: "There is less drinking among young people than at any time in the past eight years. Let us stop slandering our sons and daughters! . . . Neither in Washington Square nor in 42nd Street nor in Hell's Kitchen are there as many places where liquor is sold as before Prohibition...
Laboriously climbing back up his rope the equivalent of 30 floors, he started horizontal explorations which led miles beyond any known territory. One vast underground chamber, lavishly studded with stalactites, pools of water, a fountain, Nicholson and his comrades named "Hell's Half Acre." To the north of this room was a shaftway, with levels above and below. A strong air current suggested another entrance to the cave...
Into the tunnel leading beyond "Hell's Half Acre" stumbled the party. The tunnel led them into another towering amphitheatre, so lofty that flashlight beams failed to find the ceiling. The white marble stage was set for a vast Wagnerian twilight of the gods, in glittering onyx, with orange-tinted, translucent stone curtains and footlights of stalagmites...
...black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised under its original title, Hell's Playground, he stood firm. White Cargo, in his opinion, was worse than Rain, worse than anything. Thus the way was open for the W. P. Film Co. of London, which bought the talking picture rights and released their product here, apparently without opposition. Their White Cargo is an uninspired photograph...