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...price paid for corn normally represents 60% of the production costs of Corn Products Refining Co. (corn starch, Karo corn syrup. Mazola oil, corn derivatives). With 1934 corn prices substantially higher than last year's, it reported half-year profits of only $4,402,000 against $5,188,000 for the first half...
...been more active in sponsoring the National Housing Act than President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. But housing is still in the future. Huge Johns-Manville was lucky enough to wangle a $173,000 profit against a half-year deficit...
...Smart, hustling American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. and subsidiaries reported half-year profits of $658,000, up 170%, from the first six months...
...Total U. S. refrigerator sales through May were up 80% over the first five months of last year. General Electric, which manufactures all things electrical including a special cheap refrigerator for TVA, reported half-year sales of $80,983,000 against $61,773,000 for the first six months of 1933, and half-year profits of $9,463,000 against...
...highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week. But the half-year total was down from 340 to 217. Scrupulously the ABA report cautioned that "there were 3,000 or 4,000 less banks to raid...