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Louisiana has been bubbling lately with gas, natural and political. Permits have been issued to big manufacturers of carbon black to erect plants in the state's rich gasfields. At such plants, millions of cubic feet of natural Louisiana gas have been burned to make shoepolish and other products. Louisianians believe this process is wasteful and, anyway, they want Louisiana gas for Louisiana, and not for "great corporate interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking...
Sirs: In TIME [April 12, under BUSINESS, p. 28] you have an item 'Big Buildings.'; In this item you list eight of the "world's hugest buildings," with the Equitable, Manhattan, 24,000,000 cubic feet first, and General Motors, Detroit, 20,411,000 cubic feet second. You make no mention in this article of the American Furniture Mart in Chicago. This building at present contains approximately 21,000,000 cubic feet, and with the addition which is now under construction will contain approximately 28,000,000 cubic feet...
...cannot get on without TIME, for, as you are so often told, you give more information about our country, the rest of the world, science and the arts, to the cubic minute, than any paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...
...stroke it sucked blood out of the veins of the seller; on the up stroke it pumped this same blood into the anemic lady. A metre on the side of the cylinder-much like the indicators on the ordinary red gasoline-pumps&151;registered plunger strokes, each transferring two cubic centimetres of blood...