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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The object of the deal was to put $3,500,000 into Consumers Power, which recently dedicated a new 35,000-kilowatt plant at Kalamazoo, is constructing a new 70,000-kilowatt plant in Bay City. This will fatten up the equity in Consumers Power in preparation for issuance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Willkie wound up with an ironic tribute to the public-relations finesse of his opponents, who issued their statements to the press at night, forced newsmen to call Willkie by phone for his replies, which ran at the tail end of stories in morning papers. Said he: "Apparently, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

> York's No. 3, York Safe & Lock Co., has built some of the world's largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In the early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

During the first six months of 1939 the total operating revenues of 1,050 Class I motor carriers (annual gross of $100,000 or more) were $130,108,000 (up 30% from 1938) on 19,184,000 tons of freight (22% over 1938). Last week American Trucking Associations, Inc. turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: New Records | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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