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...heat swirls up from the scorching desert floor to meet it. Glimmering waves of heat dance out of the iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California...
American Chicle $ 527 $ 616 Atlantic Refining 1,241 2,025 Auburn Automobile 977 178 Beechnut Packing 444 758 Curtis Publishing 2,869 3,936 General Electric 9,873 13,889 Industrial Rayon 333 362 Johns-Manville 261 1,202 Lehigh Valley Coal 26 183 Mathieson Alkali 387 489 Motor Products Corp 51d 15 Nash 1,906* 1,777* Otis Elevator 1,171 2,022 Peoples Gas Light & Coke 1,159 1,356 Sangamo Electric 335 286 Scott Paper 235 251 Seagrave Corp 1d 45d Union Oilf 3,200 8,000 United Biscuit 481 555 United Fruit 264 1,364 Western...
...into five groups: The Solvay Process Division produces soda ash and caustic soda, in both of which products there was unexpected price-cutting during December when 1931 contracts were being made. Earnings from this division are thought to be running 40% below last year. Its big competitor is Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. When it was absorbed by Allied, the Solvays of Belgium, one of Europe's richest families, acquired much Allied stock. They also have a big interest in Imperial Chemistry Industries of Britain...
...Cream of Wheat 1,882 1,868 Drug 17,013 21,123 Gabriel 618D 98D General Bronze 1,128 969D General Printing Ink 1,378 850 Hayes Body 245D 852D Houston Oil 1,731 1,655 Lehigh Valley Coal 1,190 714 Marshall Field 9,218 4.724 Mathieson Alkali 2,324 2,096 National Lead 10,560 4,675 National Power & Light 13,557 12,630 New York Central 77,428 35,981 P. Lorillard 1,336 3,614 Phoenix Hosiery 324 360D Pierce-Arrow 2,566 1,317 Public Service of New Jersey 29,544 30,163 St. Joseph...
...drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...