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...increase in the number of automobiles operated. Present difficulties in the oil business are not due to declining consumption-that has steadily increased; it has been the sudden and excessive Western production that has increased stocks and driven down oil prices. Thus far the oil companies have stood the gaff well, considering the burden thrown on them by declining prices and mounting stocks. Very few have required security financing...
...along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what is wellnigh sacrilege. Then indeed...
President: Robert Emmet Sherwood '18, of New York City; Ibis, John Lavalle '18, of Boston; treasurer, Francis Beaman Todd '18, of Boston; secretary, Thomas Gaff Wilder '19, of Cincinnati, O.; circulation-service manager, Frederick Taylor Fisher '19, of Chicago...
Four editors have been taken on the business board: Frederick Taylor Fisher '19, of Chicago, Ill.; Royal Little '19, of Brookline; William Kennett McKittrick '19, of St. Louis, Mo.; Thomas Gaff Wilder '19, of Cincinnati...
...Louis, Mo.; William Hamilton Mitchell, of Chicago, Ill.; Cecil Dunmore Murray, of New York; Arthur Perkins, of Ogden, Utah; Duncan Hicks Read, of New York; Frederick Winslow Rice, Jr., of Brighton; John Rotschild, of East Foxboro; Mayo Adams Shattuck, of Seattle, Wash.; Bennett Wells, of Merrimack, N. H.; Thomas Gaff Wilder, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Charles Enoch Works, of Rockford...