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Perhaps the most encouraging of fundamental figures was the statement on electric power production issued last week. The gap between this year's output and last year's was squeezed from 12.3% in the preceding week to 10.4%. The Atlantic Seaboard was the star performer, using but $.$>% less power than a year ago. Any increase in steel mills and automobile plants would narrow the gap still more...
...milestone last week was the I. C. C.'s approval, with modifications of the Big Four's own program. In its 1929 plan the I. C. C. had ordered a fifth East ern system to be composed of the Wabash, the Seaboard Air Line and a rag-tag-bobtail lot of small lines. Because no body advocated such a fifth trunk line, because both Wabash and Seaboard are in receivership, the I. C. C. dropped the idea and consented to a four-way division. The Seaboard was left to the South, the other lines were parcelled out among...
...acquired, for an undisclosed price, G. B. R. Smith Milling Co. of Sherman, Tex., which has a 2,000-bbl. daily flour production and a million bushels storage capacity for wheat. Its location assures Commander-Larabee of a supply of Gulf grain and cheap water transportation to the Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans to double the Sherman mill's storage capacity and is building a 1,000,000-bu. terminal at Wellington, Kan. It also plans...
...California. In April the price of crude oil was upped in Texas and the mid-continent field. California did not follow and much California gasoline was shipped to the Atlantic seaboard. Last week Standard Oil of California promised to raise the price it will pay for crude oil by 25¢ per bbl. if production for the State is kept down to 476,700 bbl. a day against the figure of 486,800 bbl. the week the offer was made. Oilmen expected independents would meet the terms, less California gasoline would be shipped to the East, all gasoline prices would benefit...
Without her industrial Catalonia and her thriving Basque country Spain would be like the U. S. without the North Atlantic seaboard and California. Yet last week the Republican Government at Madrid signed away most of its control over Catalonia which contains the country's largest, most modern city, Barcelona. In Madrid the Cortes, 172 to 12, passed a Constitutional amendment presented by Deputy Zorilla Cid (who claims descent from El Cid*) granting governmental autonomy to Catalonia. Most of the 470 deputies preferred to stay at home...