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...Owing to the financial effort demanded by the restoration of France's devastated regions, the general plan for a defensive system could not be formulated until two years ago. The program involves the construction of roads, railways, underground telegraph systems, and the stocking of frontier posts with engineering and artillery equipment. "Not only are old forts being brought up to date, but new works are to be constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this...
...operator whose large underground oil reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...
...charge of Prohibition who has repeatedly asserted that 85% of U. S. liquor comes in via Canada. Minister Euler definitely rejected the U. S. proposal that Canada, by act of Parliament, prohibit clearance papers for U. S. liquor cargoes, explaining that such a prohibition would "drive the traffic underground, saddle us with heavy expenses and do our neighbors no good." Continued the Dominion official: "Liquor in Canada, whether we may like it or not. is legal merchandise. Once liquor has paid the excise, it is as free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export...
...more to say when he read adverse criticisms of Night, his newly-unveiled ornament on the London Underground office building. One pundit had observed...