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...deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911 the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Standard to "resolve into its original units, and restore free competition in the oil industry." Author Winkler suspects and says that Standard still functions as a unit...
...institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...
...Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test of an oil well owned by the Skelly Oil Co. in the Hendrick Pool, Winkler County, Texas. Estimating its flow at 900 barrels an hour, officials hailed the gusher as the country's largest. Memorable was the rise of retail beef prices in Chicago, bringing porterhouse to 80 and 90? a pound, sirloins to 45 and 55?, rounds to 40 and 45?. Butchers foresaw, with...
...HEARST: AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON-John K. Winkler-Simon & Schuster...