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...Federal Government within the past two years has loaned $2,563,000 and given $2,097,000 to the Imperial Irrigation District of California for construction of a power system that duplicates entirely the system of our privately-owned power utility in the same area-the Imperial Valley, largest irrigated area in the world...
Last week India's prohibition movement made its biggest advance. India's second largest city, Bombay, will be bone dry next August-as far as Indians are concerned. Purred Mahatma Gandhi over his latest success: "If India carries out prohibition, it may well hasten the return of prohibition in the United States...
Last week Publisher Patterson announced his acquisition of The Farmer's Wife. The combined magazines will have a circulation well above the Curtis Country Gentleman's, 1,840,000, largest farm coverage...
Five years later he did so. Today, Jarman Shoe Co., its name changed to General Shoe Corp., turns out 30,000 pairs of shoes a day, is the fifth largest U. S. shoe manufacturer. Last week a syndicate headed by Smith, Barney & Co. offered 150,000 shares of General Shoe preparatory to listing on the New York Stock Exchange; impressed by the company's record and prospects, investors promptly bid up the new shares to a small premium...
...foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...