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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Mary. His first duty in Glasgow last week was to go out to John Brown's shipyard to inspect Queen Mary, the British challenger to the French champion Normandie, "Largest and Fastest Liner in the World." The Queen Mary is of roughly the same size as the 160,000-horsepower Normandie but of 40,000 greater horsepower. Hull designs of the two superships are sufficiently different to make horsepower not necessarily the decisive factor. Obviously the speed trials of the Queen Mary late this month off Ireland will be an international sporting event of first magnitude. Aboard...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, Englewood is a solid suburban community whose weekly News lately editorialized in favor of a town incinerator which would prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal...
...total railroad operating income. It operates a little over one-tenth of the total cars and locomotives. Its books carry about one-tenth of the total railroad investment. It handles rather more than one-tenth of total railroad traffic. Like other roads, the Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road in the land, cut in two by Depression. It took in $731,000,000 in 1929, dropped to $380,000,000 in 1934, recovered to $400,000,000 in 1935. Yet deficits have still to appear. In 1932. dismal rail-road year, it made...
Biggest chunk of spring financing will be the Government's. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced the largest single offering of Government securities for cash in U. S. peacetime history-a $650,000,000 issue of long-term bonds with a 2¾% coupon and $600,000,000 in five-year 1½% notes. Demand for these was so brisk that Secretary Morgenthau was able to close his books after the first day. An additional $559,000,000 in bonds or notes were offered in exchange for an issue maturing in April, bringing the total operation...
...white paint assumes any desired color. National Lead aLso makes red lead, used most conspicuously as an anti-rust coating for structural steel. It has a line of lead alloys, particularly Babbitt metal (a lead-tin alloy used in bearings), type metal and solder. It is one of the largest U. S. tin users, with an interest in Simon Patino's Bolivian tin mines and in other tin producers. National Lead has not missed a preferred dividend since 1893, a common dividend since...