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Meantime Tycoon Doherty girded himself for the two other aspects of Cities Service's fight in Kansas: a defense against Governor Woodring's campaign to knock 10? off the Company's 40?-per-1000 cu. ft. gas rate; an attack upon the Kansas City Star, from which Tycoon Doherty is demanding $12,000,000 libel damages as the price of inspiring Governor Woodring's rate...
...Kansas Cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita, are also owned by Cities Service Gas Co. Governor Woodring contends that the wholesale rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. is 10¢ too high at the present rate of 40¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that lower commodity prices all around should find reflection in lower rates, that industrial consumers get gas cheaper from Cities Service than the city does. The company maintains that the Kansas and Missouri Public Service Commissions have no power to regulate pipelines since they do an interstate business. The courts seemed...
...week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known that a mixture of 90% helium and 10% hydrogen may be developed for the Navy's new superdirigibles ZRS-4 and ZRS-5. Such a mixture, suggested by German scientists, would enable a ship of that size (6,500,000 cu. ft. inflation) to carry 25 additional persons.† More important, the go-to-io combination is safe.** Naturally, there would occur gradual loss of hydrogen from the bags; and this in turn would bring the entry of impurities (chiefly air) into the mixture...
...Wildcatters," is his widow, daughter of a vice president of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Last week on land belonging to the railroad, and on which is located a roundhouse, the Slick interests brought in a well yielding 50,000 bbl. of oil and 4,000,000,000 cu. ft. of gas daily...
...Engineer George A. Posey adapted Mr. Singstad's method to his 3,545-ft. Oakland Tube. The Detroit & Canada Tunnel (thus incorporated) is ventilated by a system derived from Singstad and Posey. At each end it has six intake, six exhaust fans, capable of supplying 1,000,000 cu. ft. of air per minute and of changing the entire tunnel atmosphere every...