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...bottom by a Black submarine tender . When the Blues pressed the attack, the umpires described the casualties as "very heavy"; in other words, the carnage was great. Tn the final attack, the Blues succeeded in capturing Haleiwa, a commanding position over the Pearl Harbor base. Promptly they were con ceded the victory, while the umpires and their assistants began, to reckon up the cost, to enumerate the lessons learned...
...average price obtained throughout the year by one well-known con pany was only about 18? per Ib. for its rubber; and, as many companies could not produce at this price, it meant that within a short time most of the plantations would again become jungle. If this had happened, tens of millions of people in this country would have been deprived of the use of automobiles. If these companies had gone into the hands of receivers, there is little doubt that the American consumers of rubber would have bought up these plantations at a cost which would have been...
...There have been previous devices of this type. Most of them broke an electric circuit slowly; an arc formed, injured the con- tact points, in time incapacitated the device...
...Indiana, the bankers Blair & Co., the Chase Securities Corporation and certain British interests represented by Lord Iverforth. Just what Mr. Doheny received for his 501,000 shares (out of a total of 1,001,556 voting shares) is not known, but, based on recent market prices, the con- sideration was probably in the neighborhood...
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