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...Congress authorized construction of eight "treaty" or 10,000-ton cruisers. The Salt Lake City and the Pensacola were the first commissioned. Uncompleted in the water: the Northampton, Chester, Houston. Fortnight ago at Newport News the Augusta was launched under a shower of yellow Savannah River water. Unlaunched: the Louisville (63% completed), the Chicago (65% completed...
...Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without the support of "Judge" Reiter, the Wilbur plan could admittedly get nowhere - and "Judge" Reiter, an "oil oyster" (i. e., an operator who takes the threat of government dic tation as so much salt water), was not quick to give his support. Lyons Act. Last year the California legislature passed the Lyons Act, designed to limit oil production indirectly by limiting the production of the natural gas which .forces the oil to the surface. The state's efforts to enforce this conservation measure have...
Useless to try to catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. But millions of Indians believe that the way to pacify a mad elephant is to have a camel bite...
Anyone who has not yet become acquainted with Corey Ford's rebuke to Joan Lowell, "Salt Water Taffy", will still find it well worth their while. Then there is "Ex-Husband" which followed with more alacrity than true conjugal consideration on the heels of "Ex-Wife". But there seems to be a certain comparability nevertheless, for the value of either of these books is doubled and tripled by the other. Incidentally, "Ex-Wife" was selected as one of the 50 best examples of good bookmaking for the year 1929-30. Donald Ogden Stewart has contributed handsomely with a take...
...Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt Lake ends at Craig, Col., without connecting with any transcontinental route. A 41-mile connecting line, the "Dotsero cut-off," between Orestod on the Denver & Salt Lake and Dotsero on the D. R. G. W., has been under negotiation between the two roads for nearly a year...