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...Constitution: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological Survey, to see the governors of "three or four" of the largest oil producing states, with a view to starting cooperative action.† Meanwhile crude oil production, lacking any restrictions, jumped up 30,850 barrels last week over the week prior, to a total of 2,658,100 barrels...
...fortnight ago he was advancing with 150,000 Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China...
...South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious bulls and bears of the Johannesburg market. He made $12,000 one day, lost $20,000 the next, and landed back in London with exactly three shillings in his pocket...
Therefore, on May 3, 1926, President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba announced a new and corrective policy. Cuba, largest (22% of total) world producer, would limit its planting. Thus, argued Cubans, would supply be brought down to demand. Thus would prices mount, profits increase...
Within the palace and in the surrounding gardens were placed, last week, some 1,200 images carved by 300 sculptors. Largest show of its kind in U. S. history, it was called the Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture. Held under the auspices of the National Sculpture Society, it will remain on view through September...