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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the plan, if approved by the Department of Justice (which must waive prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act on such an industry agreement), would be only a stopgap. The shortage will soon get worse. The enormous demand for oil this year is expected to exceed the 1945 wartime peak by some 14%. Among the reasons: over 90% of the locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased 66%. The shortage...
...peak year (1939) Britain had 2,034,000 private cars. The U.S. in 1947 had more than 30 million...
...beggar's name was Stephen Blau. He came from Austria during World War I. He opened a bazaar, buying & selling old paintings, stamps, clothes. For a time he did well, and at the peak of his prosperity represented Austria as honorary consul. Then he ran into hard times. In 1926 he closed his business, leaving 28 sealed boxes in pawn for the $5 he owed his landlady, and started peddling pencils...
Enough for All. Judged by profits alone, moviemakers had done superlatively well in 1947. The estimated net of $100,000,000 was down from the alltime peak of 1946, but it was still far better than in any peacetime year. Some companies that had been on thin ice a few years ago were now on solid ground. Last week, Cartoonist Walt Disney reported that on his gross of $6,619,912 he had netted $307,075, his best ever. (He had not even taken into consideration $450,000 in blocked foreign earnings...
...Bonds Today? The Treasury Department reported that purchases of Series E Government savings bonds in 1947 topped cash-ins by $155,298,000, boosting the public's holdings of such bonds to an alltime peak...