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Chicago's bonds used to be rated Aaa (highest grade), are now Baa (good). More typical of the effect of Depression on U. S. municipal finance, Richmond, Va. has slipped from Aaa to Aa, Milwaukee from Aaa to A, Detroit has lately climbed to Baa but it used to rate Aaa. Best municipal bonds are those in Massachusetts, where the State has power to reorganize the finances of weak municipalities and no city rates less than A. Among the worst are those of Florida, where Fort Myers and St. Augustine both rate Caa (poor) and the town of Frostproof...
...District, married an ambitious young Irish blacksmith, James J. Hines. She appeared in court, flanked by her bulky sons and their pretty-girl wives, only because Jimmy Hines was in the worst trouble of his rough-&-tumble career. Like Mrs. Dewey she went to see her man play for highest stakes: political position v. prison...
...week another young racehorse which racegoers thought destined to be great was led to the Saratoga barrier for another Sanford Memorial. This comer was Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson's Thingumabob, a two-year-old. He had run away with his two previous starts this season, had become the highest juvenile money-earner of the year ($31,810) by winning the rich Arlington Futurity. For the Sanford he was such a favorite that his odds, 1-to-4, were the shortest quoted all season at Saratoga...
...industrial trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid-off workers back to the plants to prepare for what Ward's Automotive Reports foresaw as "a steady rise until November or December...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...