It may well have come from that of Mr.Lucullus Fyshe.

Certainly a head which had brought peace out of civil war in the hardware business by amalgamating ten rival stores and had saved the very lives of five hundred employees by reducing their wages fourteen per cent, was capable of it.
At any rate it was Mr.Fyshe who first gave the idea a definite utterance.
"It's the only thing, Furlong," he said, across the lunch table at the Mausoleum Club.

"It's the one solution.

The two churches can't live under the present conditions of competition.

We have here practically the same situation as we had with two rum distilleries--the output is too large for the demand.