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There are three salient features to the Colombian petroleum industry: first, the marked predominance, amounting almost to monopoly, of American capital in that field; secondly, the difficulty of access from the seaboard to the richer deposits, necessitating excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed...
...Pittsburg which had been operating that concession, was amalgamated early in 1920 with the International Petroleum Company, a Canadian subsidiary of the Standard Oil, and plans have recently been formulated for the completion of a refinery near the wells and for the construction of a $20,000,000 pipe line to the Carribean ports. The Transcontinental Oil Company, of Delaware, organized in 1919, is about to undertake active exploitation of a tract of one million acres near the DcMares field; and the British Balfour group, which is interested in Peru, also holds a claim in that vicinity. This upper Magdalena...
Among other interesting articles are, a fife that belonged to Major Andre, one of the crimson crew handkerchiefs which led to the adoption of that color by the University, and a large meerschaum pipe which was once the property of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...provide this ice surface, which is 200 feet long by 90 feet wide, over eleven miles of pipe are used. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or the track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings for boxing matches. The running track is of standard with and measures ten laps to the mile. It is expected that these facilities for boxing bouts and track meets, especially the annual B. A. A. games, will be welcomed, as the seating arrangements at Paul Revere Hall have never proved...