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January sales of the Big Four rubber companies (Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S.) were at record or near-record levels. Firestone shareholders were dazed by their chairman's glowing descriptions of ten new plants and additions. General Tire & Rubber, reporting a 61% increase in 1941 sales, told its stockholders "there is no occasion for fear and panic...
...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
...York Journal & American, LIFE, TIME, Associated Press, Acme Newspictures. When the money started pouring in, the News revised its agreement with Haas, gave him 50% of the proceeds up to $1,450, everything above that. By week's end the pictures had grossed over $1,800-a near-record for spot-news photos...
...annual Harvard race on the Sherburne trail was held despite icy conditions which caused the breaking of six pairs of skis, and Yardling Dave Goldthwaite shot down in near-record time to lead the pack of more than...
Most important business event of last week was the opening of Congress and the jack-in-the-box stockmarket which it produced. Up on Franklin Roosevelt's mild opening message, stocks flopped on the next day's offering of his 1939 budget figures, with their near-record deficit...