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Among the councilmen elected by Dallas citizens under that city's new council-manager system (TIME, Oct. 27) were Edwy Rolfe Brown, vice board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, and T. L. Bradford, board chairman of Southwestern Life Insurance...
Discouraging reports reached the Board on the amount of crop acreage reduction. Southwestern planting foreshadowed a harvest of 45,000,000 bu. over last year...
...Pipe Lines. Insistent has been the plaint of the railroads that the oil companies should not control the transportation of oil through pipe lines. Last week three railroads-Texas & Pacific, St. Louis-Southwestern, International Great Northern (Missouri-Pacific controlled)-heard joyously that two big oil companies had dropped the idea of building pipe lines into the new eastern Texas oil field. Reason thought to be behind the decision was that Texas laws provide that the owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps...
...ground between Wadsworth House and Quincy Street along Massachusetts Avenue is far from level. There is a dip inside the gates of about four feet behind the southwestern corner of Widener Library. On the Massachusetts Avenue side at this point the first floor of the dormitories is on the street level, but thirty feet away, on the other side of the building, the bottom of a door to an entry is three feet below the ground. This uneveness will be corrected throughout, with enough extra grading to allow for a step and threshold to each entry. Where the doors...
...conserving Senators are especially impressed with the economic importance of wild life. The Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association for purposes of their own compiled statistics showing that in 14 Southern and Southwestern States there are 4,500,000 hunters and fishermen. Total number of people interested in other sports (baseball, football, golf, tennis) was only 5,000,000. Thirteen million U. S. hunters and fishermen in 1929 (estimated total) spent $21,000,000 for firearms, $43,000,000 for ammunition, $25,000,000 for fishing tackle...