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...Local prohibition, under local option, has had the same story. A town or county will go dry, then wet, and then dry again. But in the long run more go dry than wet, and more and more stay...
...storage battery; 3) a device inserted into an engine cylinder and employing a 12-gauge shotgun shell. When the shell is fired, it creates enough compression to turn the engine several times. The latter device, invented in France, was first shown in the U. S. by Charles A. Levine. Option for its manufacture is now held by Eclipse Aviation Co.. Orange, N. J., sole manufacturers of the inertia types of starter...
...have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts $33.50 per ton. Last Friday, Aug. 8, 1930, the Chicago option was 96 ½? per bushel. The mill quotations...
...been previously tried and given up. In this fashion Doherty interests developed into rich fields the Little River, Bowlegs, Seminole and Oklahoma City pools. Last week, while No. 1 Mary Sudik was still spouting, Manhattan newspapers revealed that Cities Service has again followed this method by acquiring a 51% option on North European Oil Corp. Although there was no new item to justify printing the report last week, accounts told what had been in the April issue of Fortune three weeks ago: Germany has produced some oil, mostly from surface drilling; North European Oil has been formed by Manhattan capitalists...
...Hear, hear!" from members of all three parties as Conservative Captain Victor Cazalet, smart socialite and admirer of U. S. rich folk, proposed a bill which both male and female M. P.'s think will please women. If passed, a woman who marries a foreigner will have the option of remaining a subject of George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government has decided to make no reduction...