Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fields. California, however, is the crucial point. California increased its production 40% in 1929 and now produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural gas but really meant to limit oil production.* Small producers have questioned the legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that the law will reduce California's present production of 870,000 barrels a day by at least 200,000 barrels. Stabilization of oil production...
...Standard was dissolved in 1911, Mr. Teagle (a vice president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised...
...petroleum out when wells are driven. The Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...
...surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period. . . . This case...
...lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer), a dozen Pekin ducks just hatched. These animals were sent to the Zoo. Only Tiny Tim. red chowchow, sometimes called Terrible Tim. and a white collie pup now share the Coolidge home at Northampton, Mass...