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...yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...
...royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf. Before NRA, Manhattan motorists were more apt to ride on Venezuelan gasoline than not, for it is cheaper to bring...
...spits at his enemy John Maynard Keynes as "an entertaining economist whose bright but shallow dissertations on finance and political economy, when not taken seriously, always provide a source of innocent merriment to his readers...
...made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt. He is an able writer, but he has obviously created a story for a definite market and his work is stamped with all the limits and defects of that market. He gives a shallow result where he had an opportunity to create several characters of more than passing interest...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...