Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining the pressure and guaranteeing a long, steady but comparatively slow flow of oil; by capturing the gas and extracting its casing head gasoline contents; by selling the gas to public...
Married. John Dos Passes, 33, author (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer) playwright (Airways, Inc.), and a Miss Kate Smith; at Ellsworth, Me. Because to him the married state is not an awesome thing, he did not publicize his wedding, which happened some six weeks ago-he could not remember exactly when...
Married. Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, broker. President New York Stock Exchange, and a Mrs. John Mayer; in Manhattan. He is her third husband, she is his second wife. Sued for Divorce. Bainbridge Colby, Wilsonian Secretary of State (1920-21), and law partner; by Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, novelist, at Reno. Grounds: desertion...
Appointed. Alfred Emanuel Smith, to be a trustee of New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse...
...overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle...