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Speeches. In Manhattan, Executive Commander Sabin told his followers: "If each person opposed to Prohibition would contribute to the Crusaders or similar organizations one-tenth of what he spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
...public domain in Western Colorado an immense oil reserve . . . of approximately 800,000 acres in which the oil occurs in a rock called shale. . . . This oil field contains more than 40 billion barrels of petroleum of a potential value ... in excess of 40 billion dollars, equal to about one-tenth the entire wealth...
...holdings to Parmelee in return for sufficient common stock to give Checker control. Likewise, Parmelee will be given control of New York's Motor Cab Transportation, operating 2,050 taxis. Altogether, the fleet under Checker's control will now come to 10,000 taxis (operated by Parmelee), one-tenth of the total in the U. S., enough to insure the company of a large replacement business...
...important decision, but it did not make much difference to curly-haired dasher Frank Wycoff of Southern California who was recently clocked over a Hundred in one-tenth of a second less than Tolan's time but whose record was too recent to be considered by the Federation last week. It did make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting...
They ran the preliminaries in a driving rain at Evanston, Ill. Simpson and Tolan won their heats as expected. Simpson's time of 9.7 was one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. Tolan was smart, said Michigan supporters: He was not going to run his heart out in the tryouts. Let Simpson show off all he wanted to. Next day the rain cleared off but left the air cold and windy. Going to the line the runners kept their sweaters on as long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into...