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...Parish line did not prosper. It could not get enough gas customers to produce the volume of business necessary to make it a profitable enterprise. Thereupon the Department of Justice claimed that Columbia Gas & Electric, indirectly controlling the Parish line, was deliberately mismanaging it to keep Texas gas out of Columbia's home territory. It was charged that Columbia, having seen the invader approach its gates, promptly bought a half interest in him and proceeded to render him innocuous...
Born in England in 1813, Robert Spring arrived in Philadelphia about 1858 to open a bookshop. Not until he had a chance to sell a small but genuine collection of early U. S. autographs did he prosper. Discovering his own ability at copying hand-writings, he started in a small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because...
...broad idea was that all new wealth comes from the soil which is the foundation of all prosperity, and that the farmers have to be prosperous before others may prosper. It was shown that there has been a perpetual permanent ratio between agricultural income and wages paid by industry-both being constantly about equal...
...Park. There he would install a modern cost accounting system in the President's dairy, prepare a chart showing whether occasional experiments in the President's forest preserves could be made a continuous activity giving steady employment. Son James felt sure his insurance business would continue to prosper under the attentions he could spare from his agricultural duties...
Dartmouth has been fortunately free of the alumni who view their college as an athletic club, as an escape. But whether it be athletics, or college tradition, many an alumnus becomes so blindly loyal to his college that he desires to see it prosper at the expense of its intellectual growth or its contribution to society. It is this tendency to make college the end, rather than to twined his horizons so that he may gain an understanding of the relationship which his college should have to his social life, that contributes to the present inadequacy of the liberal arts...