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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce had worked over the tables of state taxes. Last week he stated dour facts. In Ohio, Carnegie Steel Co. (subsidiary of U. S. Steel) paid 24 different taxes last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. spent more on taxes than on dividends. International Harvester Co., needing a new plant site, studied Ohio taxes, and picked Fort Wayne, Ind., just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American Rolling Mill Co., in Kentucky. "There has not been...
...result of long careful study of Climatic and atmospheric conditions in different parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the Harvard Observatory had decided to transfer its southern station from Arequipa, Peru, to a site in South Africa, probably in or near Bloemfontein. It is expected that observations will begin there within a few months...
Several sections of the Dark Convent have been investigated under the superintendance of Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory; Hanover, Johannesbury, and Bloemfontein have all been found favorable for stellar observations. The last-site mentioned is on the whole the best of the three, according to the authorities, and will probably be selected...
Arequipa, the present observation site, has had a long and varied history. An elevated site about 25 miles east of Lima was temporarily chosen in 1889, principally as a point of observation from which to continue the work in photometry and spectroscopic survey begun in the Northern Hemisphere at the University. But Mount Harvard, as this spot was named, proved almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice...
Professor Pickering, Director of the Observatory at that time, finally authorized the recommendation that Arequipa be chosen as the permanent Southern station. For on this site there was not only almost as good a sky as in any part of South America, but excellent living facilities were obtainable for members of the Observatory's staff. In 1890, the main equipment for the station was sent to Arequipa. Throughout the years since then the Peruvian government has in every way possible assisted the efforts of the Observatory...