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...greater the number of companies subscribing for stock in the Patent Company, the greater the Standard royalties and the greater the conservation of petroleum. Furthermore Standard, contemplating not a patent pool but a patent ocean in which all (with the qualification noted above) may freely navigate, has averted the likelihood of protest from independents or from the Government...
...Holy City in the Santa Cruz Mountains is for men only. Its inhabitants wear long hair, sell barbecued pork and gasoline to travelers, broadcast from their own radio station, post signs reminding the countryside of the likelihood of Death. Their hillside retreat includes a dance hall from which feminine shouting frequently echoes down the mountains...
...editorialized: "Publishers' Service unqualifiedly assures the newspaper industry that it can make a comprehensive and intelligent presentation of its cases to the telephone company [American Telephone & Telegraph] with thorough hope of not only fair and open-minded consideration by the telephone companies [local subsidiaries] but also with every likelihood of action favorable to all newspapers and the nation at large...
...slumbered for ten years in blissful and complacent ignorance awakening to find the house in flames. One feels like shouting in impish glee, "Jump, jump, we've got a blanket." But of course it is too late and the venerable figure must struggle through the flames, in the extreme likelihood of having his whiskers singed to the cheek...
...Should this proposal go through, Yale would like to close its season with a Harvard match on March 22. Yale boxers have met neither Princeton nor Harvard men as these universities have not been on the schedule, but with a change at Harvard there would be the likelihood of an annual meet. Yale will meet Cornell, a new opponent, on March 8 at Ithaca, taking the date which formerly had been Georgetown...