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Carloadings for the week ended Jan. 23 totaled 562.938 cars, a decrease of 10,338 from the week before, 152,536 lower than last year. All products shared in the decline except lumber, ore, grain, merchandise in less than carload lots. Despite this railmen were not discouraged. During the week they had time to figure out what last fortnight's 10% reduction would mean to them even on present small payrolls. Pennsylvania Railroad will save about $20,-000,000, New York Central $17,500,000, (See col. 3) Union Pacific $7,000,000, Southern Rail...
During December Japan bought 1,244 automobiles and trucks against 300 in November. Iron, steel, and gasoline purchases were also heavier. Reports from Japan last week told of depleted lumber stocks (largely imported from the U. S.) and rising steel prices...
...carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia's 147,000,000 people with three times as much food & clothing, three times as many farm implements, sewing needles, pens & pencils, milk pails, snow shovels, galoshes, brooms, beds, pots & pans, kettles, knives & forks, window
...unsaleable." Robert Long had come to Kansas City from his native Kentucky with $700, earned by doing farm chores and selling hickory nuts. All of his money was in the hay business and he wanted to get married. With his friend Victor Bell he peddled the lumber bought for hay sheds, recouped part of his loss. That was the beginning of Long-Bell Lumber Corp., world's greatest lumber concern under one ownership. Long-Bell grew to a company with $108,000,000 in assets. Yet assets do not always earn profits. Lumber has long been bad. Last week...
...great tobacco sales man, and to William N. Reynolds, executive committee chairman, who is a great tobacco buyer, Mr. Williams must be de scribed as a great tobacco lawyer. He was born on a North Carolina farm and always had more fun watching his father's lumber mill and cotton gin than he did doing chores. Moving from the practice of law in Greensboro, N. C. to Reynolds' assistant general counselship, he dropped the assistant portion of the title in 1921, added a vice-presidency in 1925. Now 47, he conceals beneath a soft North Carolina drawl...