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...companies have hitherto piped crude oil to refineries, but have shipped gasoline almost exclusively by rail and tanker. Other oil companies planning gasoline pipe lines include Barnsdall Corp., which will run a gasoline line from its Muskogee, Okla., refinery to Milwaukee, and Sun Oil Co. which will pipe gasoline westward from its Philadelphia refinery through Pittsburgh and to some point on the Great Lakes, probably Toledo. Piped gasoline has thus far been supplementary to rail and tanker rather than a substitute for them, but the gasoline pipe line has well passed the experimental stage and is beginning to rank...
...diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors thundering, all propellers whirring brightly in the sun, mechanics in varicolored costumes moving among them...
...best Presidents the U. S. has ever had." Says Author Eckenrode: a Democrat in the White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started...
Last week Feng, with his "largest private army," was reported to be making a wide, westward detour around the battle area, intending to capture Hankow, on the River Yangtze, "The Chicago of China," so called because it is the chief commercial city of Central China. If he does capture Hankow, Feng can descend the river and approach Nanking's rear in crushing force...
...Leviathan plowed westward to the U. S. last week, it bore Dwight Whitney Morrow away from the Naval conference at London where he had been a U. S. delegate back to Republican politics in New Jersey where he was a candidate for Senatorial nomination in the June primary. Confronting him were two questions: 1) When should he resign as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and take the Senate seat to which he had been temporarily appointed? 2) How should he stand on Prohibition? If he went immediately into the Senate, he would have six weeks to give to his primary...