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...operating costs to the bone, boosted advertising to the limit. Last year his Pacific Power cleared $851,957 v. $77,105; Northwestern Electric netted $460,051 against $32,341 in 1933; Portland Gas earned $236,925 v. 1935's low of $2,333. Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration. His gas volume last year hit a ten-year peak; his appliance salesmen outsold Bonneville power appliance salesmen...
...churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
...agricultural products. Possible makeup: 100,000 bales of cotton (U. S. annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three...
...forge an armaments industry from its steel mills, foundries, machine shops and technological resources, the U. S. started a business boom. Behind all the flag waving, the boom's most striking feature has been the way it has awakened the capital goods industries from their ten-year sleep. But this awakening has also generated new national income, caused a major revival in nonDefense, consumer industries as well. Item: department store sales for August were 11% above 1939. Item: residential building was 20% above 1939. Item: retailers in general, to reload their emptying shelves, have been in an almost panicky...
...ten-year party member and a member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, Billings feels very optimistic about the vote this fall, predicting that "Socialists will probably get the largest vote in the history of the party, as voting Socialist is the only way for an American citizen to register a protest against conscription and intervention...