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...Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled out of the hotel past Japanese...
...again flowed last week from some 1,800 wells in the great sprawling East Texas field. It did not gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days Governor Sterling lifted martial law in four counties to allow the State Railroad Commission to apply a new proration order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field...
...week there was by no means the same interest in pipelines. The public seemed inclined to await results before it increases its stakes in the industry. And no more was heard about such wondrous projects as a pipeline to carry grain, another to transport pulverized coal, a third to gush milk into big cities...
Where oil is struck, there is a boom. Where there is a boom there is easy money and to it flock swindlers, 'leggers, dope-sellers, gamblers, prostitutes and pimps. In eastern Texas last month oil began to gush out of Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts...
...operator. And last week they liked him less than ever. Dear to oilmen is curtailment. They dis agree on how to effect it and when, but as a principle it is their credo. No curtailer, it seems, is Oilman Julian. He has defied the rule, let his oil wells gush richly. Last week the Attorney General threatened and abandoned a plan to put his company into receivership to force compliance with the state proration order. Said Mr. Julian: "It's the bunk." On the surface last week it seemed his victory. For the list of 73 officials...