Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill, therefore, amounts to a statement to the roads, "Consolidate, or we will consolidate you ourselves." Some systems, notably that of the Van Sweringens, have already taken advantage of the friendly attitude of Congress toward consolidations, to absorb new lines. But now the most likely small roads have been largely snapped up, although some still remain. There is, for example, the story in Wall Street that the Southern Pacific might take over the Rock Island. At any rate, many roads remain that are not greatly desired, except as a means to avoid presenting excess railway earnings to the Government...
...Education, Giovanni Gentile, a foremost philosopher, has compiled theoretical works on education that have been considered to be of profound value. Practically he finds the problem a hot one. Religion enters in, as well as the fact that more professional students are being trained than the professions can absorb. Then Signor Gentile has surprised everybody by joining the Fascisti movement-which means that he is "assisted" at every turn by Dr. Mussolini, who does not seem to know too much about education. The right man, in Italy as well as here, would be something between a philosopher and a politician...
...down a gradually declining scale to September, 1924, at 517,900 barrels daily. He also estimates California consumption of oil at 441,800 barrels for November next; December, 442,950 barrels; and so on up to 451,000 barrels daily in July, 1924. On this basis, California should absorb all its own production by August, 1924, or thereabouts...
Paris and vicinity within 60 miles absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
...shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot as he rounds a makeshift into a more satisfactory arrangement. There are still many open sores in the hard coal industry...