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...Hammersmith, scarcely a car moved. Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...
...Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire that included the, Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago Junction Railway, Live Stock National Bank. Stock Yard Inn. International Amphitheater, and stock interests in Armour and other companies. But when Cousin Fred died at 93 in 1953, he did not leave Billy a cent in cash. Instead, he turned over his estate* (annual net before taxes: above...
...Grand Junction, Colo., the newsletter of the Mason's Local Mesa Lodge No. 55 dealt with the problem head-on in a poignant little verse...
Under a blazing sun, the governors of Colorado and Utah last week took part in a historic ceremony: the opening of the first privately financed U.S. plant to make gasoline in quantity from a solid hydrocarbon. The place: American Gilsonite Co.'s new $14 million refinery outside Grand Junction, Colo. There, as Colorado's Steven L. R. McNichols and Utah's George Dewey Clyde each pulled a handle, water gushed from a pipeline, turned black with particles of Gilsonite...
...Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...