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...charter was granted to the New York Gas Light Co., which later became Consolidated, making the present company the third oldest illuminating gas concern in the U. S. Its expansion has been regular rather than phenomenal, but in recent years the pace has been accelerated. A power in Con. Gas finance is Nicholas F. Brady and a power in its operation is George Bruce Cortelyou, president of Con. Gas since 1909. Once Mr. Cortelyou was a stenographer in the Federal Court of New York, then a Roosevelt cabinet member and national G. 0. P. chairman. A subway rider, he travels...
...nothing has been more difficult of late than ascertaining the attitude of the American people on the prohibition question. Now the Literary Digest, with cool calculation, is preparing to sound the country by means of a straw vote on the question that has been so bitterly argued pro and con for the past ten years...
...Allegro con brio Adagio-Affettuoso ed appassionata Scherzo-Allegro molto...
...Allegro con brio 2. Scherzo...
...gasoline market with the flood of Kettleman Oil." He proposed four remedies : i ) Pooling all profits from the field according to acre age; 2) Purchase by big companies of all small holdings; 3) Government purchase of lands not brought into the limitation agreement; 4) A holding company to con trol the whole dome's development. Oil Oyster. Secretary Wilbur's words were aimed directly at "Judge" E. D. Reiter, smart lawyer, licensed aviator, chairman of the Kettleman Hills conservation committee, of the Santa Fe Springs conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without...