Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction of 10% or more in the U.S. output...
Critics have said that the most artistically significant things in U. S. architecture are not skyscrapers or state capitols but grain-elevators, barns, oil-cracking stills. They say that because the grain-elevator is not plastered with irrelevant art and decoration, because the barn was not preconceived in Paris or Athens, because these buildings are simple, sincere and to-the-point. they are Good...
...Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago). They study in the summer session under architects of the Chicago region, on the campus of Lake Forest College. Thus far difficulty has been encountered finding really able candidates for instruction. Most Midwestern architectural students feel...
...original remedies are suggested for a few situations. A situation: from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution of the Present Family Form, Those Who Have Not Married, the Hypertrophy of Family Bonds, Women as Prostitutes, Divorce as a Means of Family Dissolution...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...