Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enforcement-553,337 For Modification-598,252 For Repeal-848,751 Out of 40 States covered, thus far only two-Kansas and Tennessee-gave Enforcement a clear majority over the combined vote for Modification and Repeal, In Florida, Louisiana and Kentucky, Repeal votes exceeded those for Enforcement. Nineteen States gave a plurality to Repeal, 21 a plurality to Enforcement...
...gross income of the U. S. natural gas industry was $196,000,000. In 1929 it was over $400,000.000. Ten years ago the industry was localized in the Ohio Valley. Today Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and California are centres of huge production. The construction of long, high-pressure pipe lines (such as the 540-mi. system extending from Monroe, La., to St. Louis), the constant investment of new capital (total natural gas investment is now nearly $2,000,000,000 as compared to $12.000,000,000 in the petroleum industry) and the growing appreciation of natural gas as an easily...
...industry expanding with such rapidity, and especially a public utility industry with long-distance transmission lines lending themselves to the formation of super-systems, is certain to consolidate as it grows. Last week was announced a major gas consolidation in the southwest. Companies affected are Louisiana Gas & Fuel Co., a subsidiary of Electric Power & Light (which in turn is controlled by Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond & Share Co.) and United Gas Co., which Odie Richard Seagraves organized in 1928. Mr. Seagraves, together with William Lewis Moody III, constitute what is commonly known as the Moody-Seagraves interests. Able...
...collegiate views on prohibition will be answered. The nation-wide poll on prohibition now being conducted in colleges of the country includes representative institutions in the middle west and the far south. Michigan and Illinois, for example are canvassing their students on the liquor question. Tulane University in Louisiana will hold a straw vote, and it may be assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present college poll is sufficiently broad...
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