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...legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly admitted. When Fall returned to Washington he threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis. In Fall's advertisement for bids nothing had been said about including in the lease an option to renew if the successful bidder found...
...some 385,000 inhabitants; but the Times and the Star, covering a wider field, have a combined daily circulation of almost exactly 500,000. Their only competitor has been the morning-evening-Sunday combination of the Dickeys, father and son. Last fortnight, the Dickeys discontinued their morning paper, threw all their efforts into their evening-Sunday paper, calling it the Journal-Post. Again and again the question is asked: Will all cities the size of Des Moines or Kansas City or Milwaukee or even Cleveland have eventually just one 24-hour, seven-day newspaper-a monopoly which supplies news...
First came famed Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, who threw the image of his design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum...
...touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made the two line bucks and the touchdown. And he gives up in disgust...
...Junior-Sophomore game the lone score was made when Geoffrey Parsons '31 received a forward pass from F. V. Nissen '30 and ran 20 yards for a touchdown. R. H. McKinnon '30 kicked goal for the point. The Sophomores threatened the Juniors continually but threw away their opportunities to score by fumbling...