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...production when its sale price dropped below its intrinsic value. On the strength of this law the Governor announced that Oklahoma oil was worth $1 per bbl. and that unless the big refiners posted $1 as their purchase price by Aug. 1, he would order shut in all the flush wells in the State's 27 great pools. Oil prices, under this threat, climbed to 50? within a week. There they remained as Aug. 1 came and went. When no shut-in order was forthcoming, oilmen opened pipe-line valves at their gushers, started their pumps...
...posed for Sculptor Carl Bitter when he made the statue, wrote to the New York Times: "I want to take this opportunity to offer my thanks to Mr. Pulitzer for enabling me to again stand exalted-and scrubbed-above the grounds on Fifth Avenue, generously spurting precious, clear water-flush, in these times of dried-up prosperity." Thomas Alva Edison announced that he would give no more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked Yale's senior honor...
Canny Alfonso believes that with Spain still in the first flush of Republican enthusiasm, Monarchists will be lucky to win 80 seats out of 400 in June. Three things, said he, may split the Republicans, make possible a restoration of the monarchy in the not too near future: the growth of Communism and Syndicalism, the separation of Catalonia and the Basque provinces, an unpopular Moroccan policy. But to start the ball rolling, a united Royalist front is imperative...
...York City seeks from the Delaware equals one-half of the city's present daily consumption (880,000,000 gal.). The 6,930,446 citizens average 129 gal. per day each to drink, bathe in, cook with, wash clothes, heat and light homes, put out fires, wash streets, flush sewers...
...portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...