Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main line of the Kansas City Southern cuts into Louisiana at its northwest corner, curves southward through wooded hills. Under these hills, just north of the station of Rodessa, lie mile-deep pools of oil discovered last year and now rated as among the largest in the U. S. Last week Kansas City Southern stock was given a fancy jiggle on news that the railroad had struck oil in the Rodessa field. Excitement, however, petered out quickley. It was learned that the drilling had been done not by the railroad. K. C. S. happened to own outright a quarter-mile...
...formed in 1928 under the Webb Act to handle the combined export business of Standard Oil and three subsidiaries. A non-profit organization, Export has only 100 shares of common stock, 40 owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, 30 by Humble Oil & Refining, 25 by Standard of Louisiana, a New Jersey subsidiary, five by Carter Oil Co. Export's owners paid all expenses, guaranteed the big preferred stock issues. However, the new bonds are a direct obligation of parent Standard of New Jersey...
...regional anthology. Compiler Hudson's book is an academic barn-full of curious gleanings picked up from old Southern almanacs, church histories, colonial archives. State records, local newspapers, magazines. Professor Hudson's cross-section of the pre-Civil War Deep South, which he calls Misslouala (Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama) gives a kaleidoscopic picture that is interesting but rarely funny...
...range of normality, has anything to do with intelligence. Dr. Boas has no confidence in intelligence tests as measures of race superiority, because such tests cannot be divorced entirely from environment and experience. During the War it was found that Chicago Negroes did better with intelligence tests than Louisiana blacks, although the two groups were anthropologically alike...
Last week met the state medical societies of Arkansas. Florida. Louisiana and New York. The New York convention in Manhattan was the most notable of all except that of the American Medical Association in Kansas City next week.' By the display of 17 colored cinemas of operations, it even surpassed the A.M.A.'s program, where only ten medical movies will be presented. From manufacturer's of medical products, machines and books, who rented display space at their show, the New York society collected almost...