Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice, long delayed, moved thoroughly. Thirty persons accused of complicity in the Nagyrev poisonings were in Hungarian jails last week. Hungarian police promised that when the trial opened at least 100 would be in the dock...
...witness his agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval to U. S. attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England, and in and around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which...
...really meant to limit oil production.* Small producers have questioned the legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that the law will reduce California's present production of 870,000 barrels a day by at least 200,000 barrels. Stabilization of oil production for 1930 depends largely upon the outcome of the Lyon...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...
...side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...