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Between them Baldwin Locomotive Works and American Locomotive Co. account for the lion's share of the U. S. locomotive business-when there is any. Last year American Locomotive enjoyed a pick-up in orders. But last week it reported a deficit for the year of $2,071,000 against...
Aboard the plane was Movietone Editor Edmund Reek, primed to edit the assassination and compose sound captions on the flight back to Manhattan. Since the dangerous pick-up at sea would itself be news the plane carried a $20,000 sound camera...
...weak link in any armored car service is the 15 seconds between the opening of the car door, to let out the armed guard and a cash carrier at a pick-up point, and the closing and locking of that door from the inside by the driver. At that precise moment, after the U. S. Trucking Corp.'s car had halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three...
...week Col. Prector, 72, lay critically ill of pnemonia in a Cincinnati hospital. †A by-product of soap is glycerine. During Depression, prices of glycerine dropped so low that soap makers let it run down the sewers. An unprecedented demand for anti-freeze mixtures during the winter, a pick-up in the use of industrial explosives and war talk has made the price of crude glycerine from a low of 4? per lb. in 1933 to about...
...levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick-up in automobile production had bettered the status of 10,000,000 workers in 20 major industries...