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Dallas, Tex., great distributing centre, prides itself as "the Eastern city of the South." It boasts its 19 golf courses, its 28-story Magnolia building, its (oil-burning) spotlessness. But it was none of those things that put Dallas on the front page of every newspaper in the U. S. last week; it was Orbit chewing...
...idea of piping gasoline (not crude oil) across country. First company to do this was Standard Oil of New Jersey, which recently converted its 380-mi. crude oil pipe from Negley, Ohio to Bayonne, N. J., into a gasoline line. Most important of proposed gasoline pipe lines are: Magnolia Petroleum Co.'s go-mi, three-inch line from Luling, Tex. to San Antonio; Sun Oil Co.'s 500-mi. Susquehanna line from Marcus Hook, Pa. to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron; Phillips Petroleum Co.'s 800-mi. line from Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Kansas City...
...government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake of Aug. 31, 1886, which killed 27 persons...
...large stock interest and will in all probability be represented on the directorate. Electric Bond & Share will have a controlling interest in the as yet unchristened new company, which will also purchase from Standard Oil of New York the natural gas properties in Texas and Louisiana owned by Magnolia Gas Co., a Standard subsidiary...
...Will you stand up?" screamed Sharkey. "I can't Jack-you hit me low." Having made sure that Scott would not go on, Magnolia raised Sharkey's hand and gave him the fight, disqualifying Scott for refusing to fight. Said Gene Tunney, a spectator, "Scott quit." Said loquacious James Johnston, manager of Scott and friend of Manhattan's Mayor Walker: "First they send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes...