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...matter of production, PRC is one of the two largest anthracite mining companies. Glen Alden Coal Co. is the other, but Glen Alden carefully withholds figures that might settle the question of production primacy. PRC has underground reserves of 2,700,000,000 tons, which amounts to one-third of all known anthracite reserves in the U. S. And its average annual production of slightly under 10,000,000 tons constitutes one-eighth of the U. S. total. Its workers number...
...equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt storage battery, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will also be situated underground...
...Work's Decree. In the Colorado shale fields, traces of oil appear on the surface of the ground. Were these enough, without drilling, to fulfill the law's "discovery" requirement? In 1924 the Interior Department ruled that surface traces were not sufficient, that their connection with underground oil supplies was not proved. Potent oil companies?Pure Oil, Union of California, Prairie, Continental, Midwest?massed their legal forces against this decision. Three years later with the aid of Colorado's Senators they induced Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, a Coloradoan, to reverse the Department's position. By Dr. Work...
...novel setting, much of the success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...
...wear, but Ivy was now giving the Salvation Army the benefit of her vocal talents. She was able to persuade Howard not to go out on a party in the company of two other traveling salesmen?a canned goods agent and the portly representative of a mortuary supply ("underground novelties") in Chicago. With every good intention the neighborly desk clerk put Ivy in the room next to Howard's. When Ivy came into his room later to bring Howard salvation, the love of God and the love of Howard became hysterically confused, and Ivy was lost once more. Playwright Nicholson...