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...right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory, and one of infinite more promise than the shallow opera being played out on the Ethiopean plains...
...years since oil was first found oozing from the ground around masses of asphalt in the Maracaibo Basin, more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum have crossed the shallow bar that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields...
...accompanying piece on the Fenway bill, "F Man", is a pleasingly light tale of the "yokel boy makes good" variety, which managed to evoke even a few belly-laughs. It is shallow and frothy, and knows it. An "F man", incidentally, is the next thing...
...that have gone into the making of Queen Mary, astronomy was added last week. Astronomers and meteorologists agreed that one of the highest spring tides could be expected at about 2 p. m. to float the great Cunard White Star liner from John Brown's shipyard down the shallow Clyde...
...most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play: and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism...