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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high) corresponding week last year. The big difference was due to the sharp drop in non-Governmental contracts, down 30% from last year. In residential building, F. W. Dodge reported awards for first 22 days of July at the rate of $112-to-$115,000,000 for the month, barely up from June's disappointing $111,000,000, off substantially from...
...Last month, Federal Housing Administration anticipated an increase in applications for insurance on new mortgages. But for three weeks to July 15, FHA's volume of new business (which had been up 32% from 1938) fell 10% below the $65,180,129 of applications received in the same period last year. This reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction...
...reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began doing business two months ago in Chicago, reported to Salesman Carpenter that its output the second month was 66% above the first...
...balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...
Last week, Partners Goldenberg and Bibichkow made an announcement: for the 1940 model year (which begins next month) Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co., Inc. will double its 1939 output, will bundle up 10,000,000 model sets to be put together and flown by youngsters and hobby-minded oldsters. In 1938, business was good, Comet grossed "closer to $1,000,000 than $500,000," expects to pass the $1,000,000 mark...