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...general textiles and clothing, agricultural implements and products, household machines head the list of imports saddled with higher duties. The steel and iron schedules bristle with slight changes, but of U. S. products only iron pipe is jacked up decisively from $10 to $14 per ton. Because Canada's autompbile industry is as yet too infantile to supply Dominion demands if further protected there is no change in this bracket. Motor cars from the U. S. will continue to enter at 20% (those retailing up to $1,200) and 271% (retailing over...
Water from the principal springs will be run through miles of glass-lined bronze pipe to a magnificent central drinking hall, located over one spring, The Chief (long since capped and abandoned), where drinkers can sit on leather lounges, listen to an orchestra, sip luxuriantly. Adjoining wings will contain hot and cold baths, mud baths, sun baths. There will be theatres, concert halls, gymnasiums, a hospital. The 1,100 acres of the park will be laid out in a series of walks medically graded from easy, level paths for patients with acute heart trouble to active, alpine scrambles for convalescents...
Greatest of natural gas pipe lines will be the $40,000,000, 1,250-mi. line started by Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. last June (TIME, June 9). It starts at Amarillo, Tex., runs eastward to Indiana, branches southward to Kentucky. Last week a new and potent partner joined hands with M-K in this development. A half interest in all of the pipe line's operating properties (with exception of its Kentucky and Indiana units) was sold to Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., Columbia Gas & Electric Corp...
Although M-K had only 113 mi. of pipe when it was formed two years ago, it now has 800 mi. in addition to the lines being built, has 410,000 acres of gas land. Leading this aggressive development has been President Parish, 34, rich yacht-going Chicagoan. Young President Parish also formed Frank P. Parish Co. to distribute M-K stock. Recently this company canceled an underwriting agreement, returned about 1,000,000 shares to MK, which has also had 204,000 shares returned from investors who refused to accept delivery. Since the sale of this stock would have...
...puffed his pipe reminiscently, a quaint gargoyle in a roseate paradise, which betrayed the artistic aspiration of the nouvenu riche. Then he tapped the ashes reflectively on the white arch and set his alarm clock for an early rising hour in order that he might enjoy his soft boiled eggs in the dining room at breakfast, before the strike of nine sounded the liberation of the chickens from their daily toil...