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...company shall pay four shillings a ton on oil sold in Persia or exported, and ?225,000 in taxes during the first 15 years, ?300,000 during the next 15. Taxes for the remaining 30 years to be agreed upon later. 5) Royalties shall be 20% of the net profits of the company after the payment of ?671,000 in dividends to the shareholders. Persia is to be safeguarded against further depreciation of sterling. 6) The company shall replace its foreign employes by Persians as rapidly as possible; shall spend ?10,000 a year in scholarships to educate young Persians...
There is every reason for applicants to attempt to rent rooms of low price as long as the University is making a profit on the Houses; this, however, they are not doing. Last year the net deficit to the University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side...
...quoted private conversations in Paris to make them bigger. He released his report on Russia and became a U. S. headline character. Mr. Lloyd George referred to "a journey some boys were reported to have made to Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...down the left side of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, took a neat pass from the inside man, gave the large round leather ball a clever kick with the toe of his right shoe. It sailed past Chesney, the New York Americans' goal guard, into the net behind the goal. That was less than two minutes after the second half began but it was enough to win, 1 to 0, the first game of the two-out-of-three series in the final round for the National Challenge Cup at soccer...
...Western team won the Challenge Cup was in 1922. Fifteen minutes after the kickoff in the second game in New York last week, sandy-haired little McLean took a pass from his 17-year-old halfback, Ollie Bohlman, sent a rightfoot hook shot into the corner of the net. The Americans evened the score with a fluky goal before the half was out but McLean got one more chance to break the tie. When there were only seven minutes left to play, he sent in a corner kick, low and wide, to his centre, Werner ("Scotty") Nilsen. Nilsen received...