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...industries are as unstable as that which is concerned with the production, refining and distribution of petroleum. It is always either a feast or famine. Until only a few weeks ago, the famine element seemed uppermost; overproduction had created a great surplus of crude oil for the oil companies to carry, prices were declining precipitously, and disaster was frankly anticipated by the trade. But meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads...
...Opposition. At the next session of Parliament the Liberal Party will, it was stated, make it clear that they have no sympathy with radical Socialism or with a capital levy. As the Conservatives will lead the Opposition, it is likely that the Labor Government will sit at its feast of power, like Damocles, with the sword of (Conservatism suspended by the hair of Liberalism above its head...
...NUWEEKLY?A Literary Feast for Everybody...
...Testament makes no allusion to the time or place of Mary's death or of her bodily assumption into heaven. Certain apocryphal documents containing stories of her death, condemned by Pope Gelasius in the 4th Century, became the foundation in the 9th Century of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The doctrine of the bodily assumption is now extensively believed, and it is this doctrine which Pope Pius XI may promulgate in definite terms...
Morsieur Perrin, according to his report on another page, appears to have been put in a quandary over American theatrical tastes by New York and its audiences. Having formed through many years of observation a theory that Americans feast delicately upon quiet and refined concoctions, what was his consternation to find that, after all, the Grand Guignol players must serve highly spiced preparations to attract a crowd. Moreover, he is struck by the oddity that staid American audiences "run wild" in Paris by going to see the somewhat strong repertoire which the Grand Guignol presents there...