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...Supreme Court declared that Standard Oil Co. (controlling about 85% of the oil industry) had conspired against the public good and that ''for the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15." In July the monopoly was split into 34 separate companies (splinters, Wall Street called them) and the great oil monopoly officially ceased to exist. But the largest Standard splinters remain the largest of U. S. oil companies; the Standard group still controls roughly 50% of the industry. Among the major companies once constituent portions of the oil monopoly...
...hundred thousand dollars annually until 1966 is asked from Bulgaria in reparations, and she offered last week to pay $430,000 a year for the same period with chances good that the difference would be split...
Fumbles, extemporized plays, mixed signals never yet spoiled a pick-up game, since everyone is out for fun. The 49 Southern Conference players who turned out in Atlanta to help the Shrine children's hospitals, split up into Blues and Cardinals, but there were seven men from Tennessee on the Blues and they knew how to work together. Bobby Dodd's stout leg got off long punts and lank Buddy Hackman spun around ends, caught long passes. In the last period the Blue line softened, letting through Jones of Georgia Tech and Bethea of Florida-too late. North...
...line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well as permit new railroad construction?will probably cause the Union Pacific to take the case into the courts. The Commission itself was not all sure, split 7 to 4 on the question. Dissenters were Commissioners Brainerd, Farrell, Porter, Woodlock...
Freshman Coach Pratt and Captain Putnam outlined the preliminary plans to the assembled Freshmen. The men will split practice sessions with the University squad today and Thursday and put in a full day's work tomorrow. Since the first game comes shortly after the holidays Coach Pratt will be forced to cut the squad before the vacation...