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...made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business rivals will always act for the eventual good of the public...
...duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...
...organized the Toledo & Western Railway Co. to operate the road and develop the new industrial acreage. The value of road and land is estimated at $2,000,000; in addition, $1,000,000 will be spent in modernizing the road and improving its terminal facilities in West Toledo. A spur line will very shortly be extended from West Toledo to the great Willys-Overland factory in Toledo...
...that five or six very promising candidates had gone on probation at mid-years and emphasized the fact that the first baseball battle was with the April hour examinations. In conversation with newspapermen after the meeting Mr. Campbell argued that public mention of the scholastic difficulties of athletes might spur them on to more serious study. He was aware, he said, of the practice of quieting reports of men being barred from competition because of classroom deficiencies, but he was of the opinion that those whose downfall was due to their own lack of study deserved little sympathy...
...crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads not only burn oil in their large locomotives, but are taking up running motor engines on their spur tracks for short haul traffic. Unless new oil fields are opened, the large stocks now overhanging market will be diminished, prices will rise, and a period of prosperity in oil industry will follow. Already this tendency is discernible in the advancing prices in the Midcontinent...