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...years more, distribute itself through the area again. The petroleum resources of Pennsylvania amount to over 400 million barrels, though only 35 million barrels have been removed. By these recovery methods, a very high percentage of the latent oil could be salvaged. Professor Johnson is not an uncritical optimist, however; he believes we should in no way weaken the drive for conservation of these essential resources...
...telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken in God and man. He left on my mind a glimpse of a man, upright in body and mind, full of good sprits, wholly unafraid of death, wholly glad to be himself. It is as an expert on happiness that...
...press which was widely published, although the Wall Street Journal refused to in-clude it in its columns. Mr. Livermore declared that the oil scandal had undermined confidence in the stock market, and rendered doubtful the presidential nominations. "I think it is very foolish trying to be an optimist in the stock market at the present time," he added. The effect of his pronouncement on the stock prices was electrical. In a single day, Fisher Body fell 13 points, General Electric 8⅛, Du Pont 7½, Baldwin 6, American Can 5, National Lead 8, Houston...
...optimist for old Europe. It is capable of reestablishment, but the means whereby this will be obtained form a great subject and would occupy much time in the telling...
Under the title, "The Making of the American Republic," Doubleday, Page & Company has just published a popular history of the United States by Archer Butler Hulbert. Professor Hulbert confesses at the outset that he is an optimist, a sincere disbeliever in the theory that the evil men do lives after them. He introduces the tricksters and rogues who play a part in the narrative of the countrys progress only when a knowledge of them is essential to a correct historical perspective. His hope is to show that the national difficulties of today and to-morrow are no more intricate...