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...> A shut-in of Bellingham, Wash., who gets$1 a month "to do what I want with," sent his month's income.
In the early 1900's many a U. S. citizen played baseball on a gymnasium floor during the shut-in winter months. The game they played was like outdoor baseball except that the diamond was smaller, the pitcher pitched underhand, the ball was bigger and softer.
At 3:25 o'clock one morning last week the world's most amazing mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, was safely and uneventfully delivered of her twelfth child, her fourth son. On the previous afternoon she received a journalist with reluctance saying: "Having a child is such a personal...
Usually gasoline price movements follow changes in crude oil prices. But last week crude remained at the levels it reached last April when the industry claimed to have "turned the corner." And herein lay the crisis. The narrow spread between crude and gasoline means small profits for refiners. Oilmen nervously...
Only field affected by Governor Sterling's martial law was the East Texas pool where production before closing ran up to 738,050 bbl. or almost half of the entire Mid-Continent output. With this field pinched out temporarily and the Oklahoma shut-in, oilmen figured a reduction of...