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...when the United States and Japan are at war, is to write leading articles in America's favor for the first two years of the war and to be too proud to fight until the third year, by which time we shall have had time to construct an overwhelming fleet of the most modern ships...
...offal which must be disposed of if their enrichment, enlightenment and pleasure is to continue. And the problem of offal often breeds trouble. Recently, the War Department reprimanded Chicago for drawing too much water from Lake Michigan for the purpose of flushing away its offal. Chicago was ordered to construct incineration plants and use less water...
...April and December of the following year, Mr. Fall, acting on behalf of the Navy Department, granted to two of Mr. Doheny's companies leases to exploit on a royalty basis Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (at Elk Hills, California), and contracts whereby the Doheny companies were to construct oil-storage tanks at the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which were to be paid for by the Government...
...University swimming team long since a died a natural death because of the lack of an adequate pool. Despite the fact that over a year has passed since the Athletic Association announced that it possessed funds enough to construct a swimming pool, nothing has been done to remedy the situation. The baseball team has been forced to spend their long period of spring practice in a small and badly planned cage. Plans were made public for a new cage on Soldiers Field which was to have been completed this spring, but of this, too, no more has been heard...
...causes of the St. Paul failure run back many years. In general, they can be summarized as the failure of the road's earnings to sustain its tremendous capitalization. In part, the bankruptcy can be attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines...