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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding but little heard of contributions to improving conditions in the Philippine Islands was the establishing of the Baguio Boys' School at Baguio, a summer resort high in the mountains north of Manila. This school was established about 1907, if I remember correctly, and the first headmaster was Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school...
With a submarine Sir Hubert* could collect data on North Polar temperature, force and direction of ocean currents, condition and drift of ice-factors important to knowledge of Earth's weather...
...meeting itself, its outstanding result was an agreement to restrict 1929 oil production in North and South America to approximate its 1928 output of 1,075,369,847 barrels. Output of various companies will be pro-rated by five regional committees; restriction is apparently on a voluntary "gentlemen's agreement" basis. Had the U. S. oilmen been European oilmen, they might have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within...
...North American Edison Co. (income 75% from electric power, 25% from transportation} net, $14,930,396. Previous year...
...North American Co. (1927 output? 5,003,332,121 k. w. h.) net $24,402,753. Previous year...