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Explained the lawyer: "Basic sediment and water deductions from crude...
Because it feels "immediate extraordinary measures are imperative in order to enable the railroads to continue in the passenger business," the Interstate Commerce Commission last week announced its most drastic decision since 1920. It ordered all U. S. railroads to reduce present basic fares of 3.6? a mile in coaches and 3.6? a mile plus 50% surcharge in Pullmans to a maximum rate of 2? a mile in coaches and 3? a mile in Pullmans. Pullman surcharges are to be abolished. Effective date: June...
...Origins of the World War. Was there any one person or thing responsible for the War's outbreak? If there was, says Author Wolff, its name was Prestige. But he seeks no simplified cause, finds no men of straw. Whatever may have been the basic cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with...
Affording an unusual opportunity for artists and others who wish to learn something about the basic mechanical principles of painting, Karl Zerbe will give a series of lectures on Monday evenings throughout March at the Fine Arts Guild on Mt. Auburn Street, on the general Subject of "The Craft of Painting...
Insisting with laudable accuracy that most critics of the Douglas plan have little or no understanding of the basic Douglas conceptions, Mr. Larkin added: "Similarly the Alberta-Aberhart dividends-by-taxation program has been widely confused with the Douglas proposals...