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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oslofjord, Though Norway's merchant marine is fourth biggest on the seas, the navy that defends it has a total personnel of 1,200, includes but four battleships. Nevertheless, Norway announced last week that the new flagship of its merchant marine, the Oslofjord, is a peace ship and inconvertible to war purposes. Due in New York in June, the new Norwegian America liner was last week getting her finishing touches at Bremen, Germany. Launched to the strains of Ja Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Country), Norway's biggest ship is a 20,000-tonner...
...statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history the U. S. has had but 15 years* of war, with a total killed of 244,357. Killed on U. S. highways during the last 15 years of peace...
...door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets of its two utility subsidiaries, Cities Service Power & Light Co. and Federal Light & Traction Co. This brought the total of utility assets registered under the act to approximately $6,800,000,000 or about 44% of the industry...
...lots of independent used car dealers. Price cuts of ten to 25% on jalopies (trade parlance for worn-out cars) and the big batch of cars older than two years kept the used car turnover in January almost the same as January a year ago, but the total inventory remained excessively high, particularly in late models. Automotive men are agreed that if about a fifth of the used cars can be disposed of, new car sales in turn will pick...
...short sales caused by professional speculators seeking to avoid the new restriction of round-lot short selling which went into effect Feb. 8.* Lending weight to SEC's suspicion was the fact that short sales have risen from 7% to 10% of the odd-lot total since the new restrictions went into effect...