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...largest United States producer of crude...
...matter of fact the largest United States producer of crude oil is the Standard Oil Co. of California. Incidentally its production is mainly light oil, and comes from fields located at tidewater, which adds immeasurably to its value...
Furthermore, the Standard Oil Co. of California is by far the largest potential producer and owns the greatest known oil reserve. Most of these lands are owned in fee (no.royalties...
British Cinema. The two largest organizations in British cinema last week merged to form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...
Cardinal O'Connell is a scholar, a great organizer,* a most understanding man. None knows better than he that, while his Church is the largest single religious unit in the U.S., the combined Protestant bodies are far more numerous...