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...eight years the Army &Navy joint board kept a sort of armed peace between the two flying services by a declaration that there was no substantial duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
Stronger Sinclair. Apparently planning tremendous expansion, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. last week girded itself for corporate frays. First of the preparatory steps was announcement that stock-holders of Sinclair, joint owner with Standard Oil Co. of Indiana of Sinclair Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., will vote on proposed sale to Standard of its interest in these two companies for $72,500,000 cash. Significant was the comment of Chairman Harry Ford Sinclair regarding this deal: "Conditions with respect to the position of your company have radically changed since the partnership with the Standard Oil Company...
...Cumberland and 160 British troops and an Italian gunboat were ordered by their respective governments to concentrate on Hankow, "Chicago of China," to cooperate with each other in every way possible. Eleven U. S. gunboats were at Hankow but under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...
...rich coal and farming country, near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
...rakes, hoes, pitchforks and such other humble tools is American Fork & Hoe Co. with plants in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wallingford, Vt., Fort Madison, Iowa, Harriman, Tenn., and many another rural centre. About 5% of its-gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed...