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...from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
...will be Consolidated's chairman, was the power back of the merger, the man who stepped into the spotlight last week was Herbert Richard Gallagher, who will be president. Since 1910 Mr. Gallagher has been selling oil on the Pacific Coast for Shell Union Oil Corp. His own talent was selling, and for that, particular reason Consolidated chose him. Nowadays it is no feat to produce oil, re fine it and transport it. Of Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres...
William Dana Orcutt has given the book an attractive format; printing and binding of distinctive quality make it an enduring memorial to its author, whose talent is thus recorded in lasting form...
...Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from the Music School of Henry Street Settlement piped earnestly and well about the Hindemith city where children held all the offices (the Mayor was 7) and grown-ups were of secondary importance. Bob and Ted Maier. 5 and 6-year-old sons of Pianist Maier...
...same thing is true of his painting. He has a natural talent for drawing, a refined sense of color. He is capable of producing such a solid piece of work as the self portrait with his second wife (the late Cartoonist Ralph Barton's second, Anne Minerly) and stepdaughter in the background. This was exhibited at the Painters & Sculptors gallery last week together with some splendid" line drawings and at least one excellent landscape. There were many other pictures strongly reminiscent of the advanced striving's of a Businessmen's Art Class. In a book of reproductions...