Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover established oil conservation as a major policy of his administration when he ordered an end to permits for drilling on Government land, and to renewals of lapsed oil leases (TIME, March 25). This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board...
...process of creating for Chicago in 1933 a World Fair which shall never be tiresome, always stimulating, was in full stride last week. The architectural committee and Norman Bel Geddes, famed Manhattan man-of-all-design, gamester (TIME, March 4), who functions as an advisor, had begun talking details...
...riot, the worst of the three, came the evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...
...Mifflin Co. treading the trail blazed by Simon & Schuster, fad promoters, publishers of Trader Horn and Cradle of the Deep? Is the Pedro Gorino another dubious "autobiography"? Like Ethelreda Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer...
...Treasury Department and the office of the Supervising Architect approved the recommendation of the various commissions and contracts were let for limestone in February and March of this year: both of these contracts going to the Indiana Limestone Company...