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...admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement???that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact publicly criticized, the action of Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior...
...position on the United Board associates him not only with Thomas S. Gates and George Whitney (J. P. Morgan & Co.) and Landon K. Thorne and Alfred L. Loomis (Bonbright & Co.) but also with the heads of Columbia Gas & Electric, Public Service of New Jersey, Commonwealth & Southern, and United Gas Improvement??? potent utilities represented in United's portfolio...
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