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Meantime, disorder continued to bubble down the Indus, whose banks became the scenes of Hindu v. Moslem rioting. At Sukkur casualties were: 13 Hindus killed, 71 wounded; one Moslem killed, 33 wounded. In the revenue districts of Rohri and Ghotki, looting, kidnaping, murder were reported...
United, of which Frederick Brant Rentschler is president and which, with backing from National City Bank (president: brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler), has been expanding ambitiously and profitably, had bid for control of NAT and. as some saw it, for supremacy of the indus- try. United sought to join NAT's New York-Chicago route with its own Boeing system (Chicago-San Francisco) in a transcontinental line, perhaps to be linked with future United-Zeppelin trans-Atlantic operations...
...formation in 1923, National Dairy's assets have jumped from $11,000,000 to about $200,000,000; its sales from $13,000,000 per year to almost $300,000,000. Thus the company has more than shared in the growth of the $3,000,000,000 dairy indus-try which, according to President Mclnnerney, has seen U. S. per capita consumption increase 50% during the last ten years, will see it rise another...
...Smoot's summary conversion showed plainly that Mr. Hoover had made up his mind about what he wants done to the tariff. He wants a higher tariff for agriculture and for a few specific indus tries (not named) which are now in poor condition...
...Federal Reserve Board shook a threatening finger, spoke a warning word. With loans to brokers standing at $5,669,000,000, the Board felt that too much money was being absorbed by the stockmarket, that other interests were being forced to pay too much for money they borrow, that indus-try as a whole was suffering from diversion of funds to brokers and speculators. It therefore expressed the opinion that a member of the Federal Reserve Banking System is "not within its reasonable claims for rediscount facilities" when it borrows Federal Reserve money to be used in "making or maintaining...