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...weather, Detroit had its best November ever, sold 400,000 cars to retail customers. One catch to this performance: although the 1941 model year began early, the early-season rush is still on. Also, many buyers have been frightened into premature turn-ins by the thought that the 1941 models may be the last for some time. Yet the automakers, just as scared of rationing as their customers, have been anxious to build year-end inventories up to the level of 600,000 new cars...
...main advantages are the $37,000,000 of new capital from Atlas, the hope that this can be put to work to earn a return handsome enough for expansion plus dividends, and a straightened-out capital structure. To holders of Atlas' 3,000,000-odd shares of common (year-end net asset value: $12.80), it means trading $5 per share of their asset value for 65/100 share of Curtiss-Wright Common having a market value of over $6.75 ($10.50 a full share), and the remaining $7.80 per share of their asset value for one share of Odlum...
...supply at the 1939 steel production rate) and for the steel industry's private hoard (15 months' supply), Cuban-American after a deficit of $22,059 m 1938, and three deficit quarters in 1939, turned the corner. Result: a 285% increase in gross sales, a record year-end...
Last week U. S. banks great and small sedately advertised their annual year-end statements and financial pages reported their year-end earnings. No news were their latest over-all statistics: that they had more deposits than ever before ($42,022,000,000 in Federal Reserve member banks, up $4,596,000,000); that due to the inflow of war-scared gold from Europe they had record excess reserves ($5,200,000,000, up $2,128,000,000); that they had a record amount of idle cash (almost $6,000,000,000, up over...
...year-end reports showed...