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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glee Club, in its biggest weekend schedule of the year, will sing on three consecutive days with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall starting this evening...
Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...
Wasteland Wonder. For California, it was an agricultural milestone. In three brief years California had become the fifth biggest U.S. cotton producer (its 1948 crop: 960,000 bales, 6.4% of the U.S. total). Last year, California grew $148 million worth of cotton, making it the state's No. 1 crop, well ahead of grapes ($102 million) and oranges ($96 million...
Much of the crop had been grown, not for a booming market, but to cash in on the Government-supported price. At 32½? a lb., the support price was about 300% over prewar levels. Last year, in spite of falling demand, U.S. cotton growers had turned out the biggest crop (14.9 million bales) in eleven years, giving the U.S. a carryover of some 6,000,000 bales...
Railroads. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. reported a net profit of $62.8 million for 1948, second biggest in its history (biggest: 1942-5 $73.6 million). But its wholly owned subsidiary, the Western Improvement Co. and its affiliates, which operate the oil, mining and timber enterprises spread beside the Santa Fe's tracks, did even better. Net profit of $11.2 million was its best ever. As in other years, the profit did not go to Santa Fe but into Western Improvement's surplus, bringing it to $58.8 million. Said Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley...