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...impracticable for private concerns to do these things. That would be like asking the White Star Line to furnish and maintain all the light-houses and other safety devices along the Atlantic seaboard...
...national power policy", said Mr. W. S. Murray, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON regarding his work as chairman of the committee appointed by the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to report on the advisability of connecting all sources of energy on the Eastern seaboard into one central, superpower system. Mr. Murray is known especially for his work in electrifying the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Rail-road from New York to Stamford...
...Murray was the first man to conceive the project of a superpower station for the region between Boston and Washington and urged the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to make a survey of the source of energy in New England and along the Atlantic Seaboard as far South as Washington. The survey considered the economic possibilities of interconnecting existing electric power plants and systems in the zone and building of new plants...
...took place between Carlinville and Taylorville, lining the pockets of players from Notre Dame and the University of Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude pharisaical. No one can be quite sure what would have happened if professional football had flourished among the cities of the seaboard, rousing instincts of civic pride and personal gain. Nor have the temptations of the Middle West been sordid merely. There is that matter of stadiums. No college which is truly up and doing can be quite satisfied with the athletic glory that was Greece until it is appropriately encompassed...
There are three salient features to the Colombian petroleum industry: first, the marked predominance, amounting almost to monopoly, of American capital in that field; secondly, the difficulty of access from the seaboard to the richer deposits, necessitating excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed...