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...birthday Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of $83,000,000 Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...
...months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from a Brazilian cement company. Alco got the order-and filled it at its Montreal plant...
Last week Alco's directors, for the first time in Alco's 31 years, passed the preferred dividend, the last dividend that was being paid by the country's three locomotive companies...
...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...
...Yale now has a 71 per cent alco- holic-mindedness in 1930, it would be quite reasonable to assume that such dominating environment would influence at least 20 per cent more students by 1934, so that 90 per cent of the students would be the actual alcohol-mindedness of the present body before it graduates. So that a boy or girl from a temperate home would have a pretty poor chance of keeping clean in such an infected environment...