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Final* Edition

In 2 Sections -Section 2

ESTABLISHED OVER 100 YEARS

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an

Financial

d

Chronicle

Reg. tf. S. Pat. Office

Volume 163

Number

New

4460

York, N. Y., Thursday, January 31, 1946

Calls President's

Observations

Budget Misleading
Senator Bridges^ Ranking Repub¬
lican ' on
Senate Appropriations

By A. WILFRED MAY=

v

•

Committee, Says It h

A

Master¬

a

Price One Dollar This Issue

The Year Ahead
Not .for many years, if ever, have so much time and
effort been spent in attempts to peer into the future to
see what a
coming year is likely to bring forth. Seldom,

if ever, have forecasts been so
abundantly and so recklessly
placed before the public.
Not since: 1919 have we been
so beset with labor difficulties.
The better part of two
decades has elapsed since so many forecasts of such" im¬
,The new President of the United States, in strong contrast to Mr. Be Balanced.
mense economic
good fortune have been heard.
/Roosevelt, has little political support of a personal nature, and is with¬
Never,
Senator Styles Bridges (N. H.),
out the magnetic personality or ability to gain it. Hence he now must
not even in 1933, has our future been so
completely in
ranking;/Republican member
buy votes in wholesale lots—and where outside the unions does such
our own hands—or, at all events, in the hands of the
of
the
Senate
policy¬
Appropriations
:'a ready-made juicy source of ballot-supply exist? Moreover labor's
Committee, reflecting the views makers and political managers in national affairs. The year
battle was timed to precede the post-war termination of the govern¬
The opinion has been widespread that in the

timing of its giant

piece of Deception and Blueprint of
/offensive against industry the CIO showed bad strategy; because of
'the corporate tax situation and other reasons, but there are numerous Waste. Holds Deficit of $4 Billions
.factors that contradict this and validate the ACTION of the unions. Is Unwarranted and Budget Should

ment's

of the Minor-

,

/

1946 will be what

.

powers."These extraordinary authoritarian powers are
ity, jm a state- fiipi
serve the collective purposes of both the unions and the
ment
issued
: Administration; and equally important, the public has become used to
January
28,
/them.
And visra-vis Congress.- in addition to the factor of the:imn
termed the
portant 1946 elections, it was wise to force a showdown before the
President's..
potential moves for overall legislative reform of the labor situation
Budget and
; should have an opportunity to get under way. <
* .
•
M
war

p |

available to

-

^

long-term

*

past

of

the major responsibility for the current'

situation is a moot question.
President: Roosevelt was committed to

and

for

Over the
the twin

f

print
waste of

o r

-

tax¬

funds."

*

r

"statistics

issued by government agencies.

were

Then

came

his fact¬

issue

re ct
•

•

t
Se"-

„•• ■

■■

y

finding proposals, with the boards' handing-down, decisions in lieu of
5"
objective reports of the facts. As of 1946, Mr. Truman is most effec¬ ment that "the public debt is ex¬
tively furthering Union purposes along political rather than industrial pected to decline," Bridges said:
lines.
In the sphere of definitively settling the present strikes, the
"Instead of declining the net
state-

.

•

/President himself has actually made it most difficult for the union

public debt actually will increase
leaders to engage in real collective bargaining. How can labor lead$15.1 billion during the next 18
ci's. even if they were so inclined, possibly lead their men to a wagemonths.. The basis for this con¬

'

than the figure broadcast
-

f

by

and that, more

readiness to

tell business

^ ;

/

The American System'

v ; -) /V;. /

! »,We may let it be known in no uncertain terms that
we want to return to our traditional American
system now
that peace is here, our system in which the initiative is left
to the individual who is

expected to generate his

own

steam

and who must look after himself; in which natural forces

given play with only such limitations

are

(Continued

clusion is the Budget itself.
The
President made every effort to

on

page

as

are

really

616)

And with respect to

the general labor outlook, the possibility of have taxpayers believe that the
effective legislative amendment of our labor laws is no: doubt effec-: Federal * Government will grow
tively nullified by the President's veto power.
financially stronger during the
-

*

as proper

;':v

•.

with the. Pres-:

Ident's

settlement less advantageous
the President? ,/

more

Taking ' di¬

'

Mr* Truman's activities. He vigorously affirmed that wages can be
5 raised while prices are frozen, in support of which thesis various

exact and

precisely what they should do in this or
that situation, more and better deficits, more stringent re¬
strictions on natural forces, more tinkering with the money
market, and more of all the things that the New Deal man¬
agers always are itching to do—we may clamor success¬
fully for all this arid later rue the day .

payers' and
bond
buyers'

'

more

and labor unions

t i nued

con

practice of encouraging labor monopolies, while conducting a vigor-'
| ous and continuing offensive against industry. He gave his support
j to organized labor in exchange for its votes more and more openly,'
climaxing in the CIO-PAC domination of the 1944 Democratic Con-!
vention and Election.
More specific in the wage situation have been
.

this

control of

.bluer

a

make it. * To be

We may, if we choose, clamor with ever more insistence
"strong, bold action" in the: White House/ for more

/

"a
iec e
deception

essage

master p

Whether the Administration—New Deal and post-New Deal—or
7 the labor leaders, should bear
.and probably recurrent strike

we

explicit, this year of our Lord will be for us precisely what
the Washington authorities
permit it to be-—and what they
permit it to be will depend upon what they hear from the
rank and file of the people.
•'

,

,

next

months

18

of

his

From

adminis¬

in the labor situation, now tration.^ It will ih fact become
coming to a head, exists in the extent of strikers' eligibility for gov¬ dangerously weaker,"'
ernment 'insurance^ benefits. Their qualification' for "such payments
Official Debt Figures
varies pursuant to the laws and administrative policies of the respec¬
tive states. In New York strikers must now waif seven weeks before
Supporting his charges, Bridges
getting insurance benefits, but the CIO is this week vigorously pre¬ cited the following official fig¬
senting to the legislatures bill to make strikers immediately eligible ures from the 1947 Budget as sub(Continued on page 617)
for unemploymentbenefits, which amount to a maximum of $21 /per

Washington

One of the most important issues

Ahead

-

>

(Continued

on page

617)

GENERAL CONTENTS

The

613

Monthly Range of.Prices
Bond' Issue

and

•.

,*

Stock

on

oh

Transactions

'

New York Stock Exchange in 1945 621
.

New York Stock

Course

Exchange

,

of.

Prices

which was followed by his ascendancy
And the widely accepted story was that he was
>>-

Big Industry's

for, Government

Securities During 1945............ 640

contact in the

municated

White

Special Features

Monthly Range Of Prices
ON THE

Ahead

Year

Back in the Coplidge days, a Boston business man, "Frank W.

:

to the White House.

Page

*

,

v

Stearns, used to sit around the White House all day long. - It is not
of our knowledge that he ever once gave Mr. Coolidge an idea or told
him what to do.
But he had been instrumental in Mr. Coolidge's
election to the Vice Presidency

Editorial
-

anything to say,

that

House,

good

they had

their

/man
right there to

tell

SECTION

contains

a

tabulation

showing the
high and low prices, by months, for the year 1945
of every bond and stock in which
dealings occurred
on the New York Stock
Exchange.. See. pages 621 to
639.
Course of prices of Treasury bonds, by months,
throughout 1945, is shown in table on page 640. -

,

Ahead

of \ the

News

r
613

Observations"..............

Mr.

Coolidge
from
day to

About

613

641

.

and they

have

we

if

termine

he

told

Mr.

said,
ever

of

Trade

General Review

was

Weekly Carloadings.
Paperboard Industry Statistics..

m

Weekly Lumber Movement.....

Business and Finance
^
on

after the turn of the year start

page

The

ers,

4

Carlisle Bargeroit
'

v

,

without the ken of those of

us

wh<

of fact, we
there
was a man lost, with time on his
hands and serving no useful pur¬
pose, it was Mr. Stearns.
But he
was a symbol, so to speak, of the
fact that industry had the leader¬
ship of the country.

*,

Weekly Crude Oil Production......

642

*

642

Market.,....... 642

Weekly "Her*" j* o^tnut...

W

fevered tKe White House in those

Weekly Steel Review.'............... 620

Cotton

it

in¬

lead¬

643

Moody's Daily Commodity Index..,. 619

Non-Ferrous Metals

our

.643

Weekly Coal and Coke Output,.;-

'

message

from

dustrial

Fertilizer Association Price Index... 619

541 of the First Section of today's issue.




.

.....

619

Spinning Figures for December 641

and what was

significance of
this, it
^eems to this writer, has escaped
general appreciation. As to just
What Mr. Fairless had in mind,
we are not prepared to say.
But
official
Washington,
including
Mr. Truman, has interpreted it to
mean that this group of represen¬

a

641

Weekly Engineering Construction... 641

trying to do

anything, ever
I
passed

643

.

group of industrialists
could sit down and de¬
what the Government

best for the Government to do.

641

,

suggested

Co o1idge

on

,

Commodity Prices, Domestic Index

Opinions of Leaders

he

sentative

As

619

State

which

wanted.

even
r

in

address

618

Trading on New York Exchanges,.. 641
"

had

that Mr. Truman call in a repre¬

,

NYSE Odd-Lot Trading

'

they

Mr. Mellon,

Old

Industry

Banks and Trust Cos..

Moody's Bond Prices and Yields.
Items

when
was

day just what

Regular-Features

Fromv Washington

with

Andy.
"Nevertheless,
Mr. Stearns typified the indus¬
trial leaders' ascendancy over any;
labor leadership of those days.
This is by way of calling atten¬
tion to Mr. Fairless' recent, radio

'

THIS

[News

of

By/CARLISLE BARGERON

*

days.

♦

As

a

matter

used to consider that if ever

Their man,

the

one

they com-

tative

industrialists

would

not

simply discuss the Steel strike but
question of how the
Government is doing, what should
the: broad

be. done for the betterment of the

country, just what a broad gov¬
ernmental policy should be.
In short, rightly or wrongly,
(Continued on page 615)

y.-

'#X.

//i'/

.': ■'
'

Wmm''

■'■ y

and

Balanced in 1947

Wants Budget

Congress for Declaration of Policy
Wants Annual Retirement of Debt.

Senator Byrd Also Calls Upon
to Limit Debt to $275 Billions.

ing

a

..;/

,

.

.

'

im¬ ancing the budget and beginning
ah annual retirement; on the pub¬

the

lic debt.

of an act
.which. would
decrease t h e
age

The President estimates on

July

1, 1947, that the debt will rbe 271
limit
of"ttie billion dollars after applying cash,
The debt should and
national debt reserves.
from the pres¬ must be held to a maximum of
ent amount

tention pn; this vital questiop and
the same time to enable^Con-

$.3 0 0 billions
to /$ 2 7 5/bil¬
lions.

at

text

to ending
Of deficit financing,
today introduced : a bill

gress to lead
the long era

:/://;

The

In order, to focus at¬

275 billions.

of

of

the

way

Senator Byrd's

I

statement fol¬

which

lows;

legal over-all debt from 300 bil¬
lions td 275 billions.
This figure

In his mes¬

"It

«

»

is good to

would

be

the present

reduce

adequate, in accordance

with the President's message, un¬
til July 1, 1947, with a margin of

President

21,
Truman said:,

will

January

sage

have

.

move,

four billions for emergencies."

toward a

r

the

balanced budget and a start on

1

; ;
billion

The debt limit of 300
,

established

had

than

"While

://£/:/; ',/?/?

December

employment
yet available in de¬
tail, all indications point to-a con¬
tinued rise in non-agricultural emdata

Spending has

rate

of

day,

income <of

taxes

at: the
■annually

rate

of

$7,000,0*0,OQO?/

said

of

their

industry as a whole operated at an
estimated 4.9% of capacity, which

a

/

•week./;///

metalworking .paper, in its
review of the steel trade the
past

was

year
a

Government advisors, the maga¬

.fabrication

plants, part of the
aluminum
industry, and others
were vitally affected by the steel

savings,

war,

tional

reported to be the lowest since
1893. Basic steel producers, some

people
at the

dropped

■'People are" beginning to spend
portion

:
; Drastic Reclines occurred /during the \veek: in. the' ohtput of the
various steel mills and the steel«~

though the

even

has

large
backlog of orders and shipments generally, continue to be shrouded
with uncertainty.r < '
"
; >

up

the :Americ<?ai

after
■

gone

$3,000,000,000

V-J

since

;;: / The level of overall industrial production Was sustained the past
week notwithstanding the hampering effects of severe
labor strikes
in several industries. / Manufacturers for the most
part report a

not

are

balanced tmize all expenditures and save
every possible dollar towards bal¬ ;fdQyment."

mediate pass¬

Harry F. Byrd

faster

expected. / By mid-No veinber—only ninety days after the
end
of
the war—the transition
drop had been reversed and a

budget in 1947
and

recovered

Thursday, January 31, 1946-

been

decided rise had set in.

Byrd (D.-Va.), who has beenadvocating economy
in the Federal Government for several years past, issued on Jan. 25 a
Senator Harry

statement u'rg-*v

'*' V:!!.':

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE

614

;: '7:''

the

report, and instead of
saving $3 out of every $10 earned,
are putting away only $2. //'/'
Wholesale
prices
have
been
creeping; /upward more rapidly
than in any similar period since
1943, Snyder noted. - Liquid as¬
sets in the hands; of / individuals
and business total $220,000,000,000, which, if improperly handled,;
can
"become a charge of dyna¬
mite exploding under our/price

zine

said, .were toying with two
principal methods of attack, the
more immediate one
being a lib¬
eralized
pricing / policy, / The

strike.

.

/

brighU spot., iri the week's
afforded:industry by the

A

announcement

on

that both Ford and
effected

at / both;/

dollars

was

-

proved

longer

Walter P.
structure
Reuther, Vice-President
of the
V The Reconversion Director also'
UAW, ' CIO," asserted
that the
saw; inflation psychology in tne
strike?/against / General / Motors
"growing
business / expectation would continue-"until a |ust set¬
that effective price control will tlement is reached."
end
and prices will rise."
He
The settlements arrived at by
added:/ "Such an atmosphere is Ford? and? Chrysler, in the eyes of
contagious.
The expectation/, of Administration
officials,
estab¬
inflation
immediately, becomes lished a "pattern" which might
one; of
jits direct
contributing have wide application and they

dollars,

which

have

existed lor eighteen years.

r.

cordance

scru-

estimate.

deficits

Congress

must

careluuy

as

of July 1, 1946 in ac¬
the
President's

with
•

•'

<

what it is, a disastrous boom could
if an inflationary buying

rush

*

v

were

our

only

Reconversion Director, on Jan. 21; submitted his

John W. Snyder,

sufficiently to balance de¬
If people
thought that
price control would end at June
36, compliance1 and enforcement

crease

mand.

year-end report to the President and Congress, in Which he indicated
that production of civilian goods is now at an annual rate $20,000,000,- would deteriorate
,000 greater than it was 4 months ago, and strongly advised that price ■fore that" date."
controls and rising production be used as means to divert the threat
of inflation in the country.
Mr. Snyder was unable to predict just

production

industrial

when

and?:■.///■/•■.,■,;■■. to be freed in the next half year,
along with newly discharged gov-:
ernmental and war plant workers.
-

public
demand
for
consumer
goods might be equalized. Urging
continuance of the price control
act
beyond its expiration date,
the reconversion head declared,

fair."

according to the account of the
report
given from Washington

sist.

Coal—"Supply

-

total, of

where

™

^

smothered by

need, according

with

inflation

"a steady stream of

goods."
Mr. Snyder went on to say, ac¬
cording to the Associated Press,
that labor strife had delayed the
start of some important produc¬
tion lines, but that the high out¬
put of cars, refrigerators/ washing
hw*
have

aih

Komi

hv

not
been achieved by
time, in any case."
In 73
pages
the report forecast what
1946 would bring in these vital
/fields, said the Associated Press:

this

Food—Americans may eat more
in
the
record year 1944,

than

when

consumption

was

11% above

the pre-war average.
Housing—"Our
most

serious

start

Private building will
"the fastest upswing in its

history," but demand will be
eral times greater than
construction supplied.

the

sev¬

new

-

Jobs—Business cannot expand
quickly enough to absorb in the
near

future the

4,500,000 veterans




.

will

cotton

per¬

goods

by 20 to 50%.
the 1939
$40,000,000,000 in sales
the

exceed

1945

laid the physical basis for such a
volume, topped only in 1929.
Agriculture—To safeguard farm
income, Congress should author¬

"direct

payments to farmers
necessary," instead of the

present /method

of

talked

„

supporting

necessarily,
industries

other

a

varying

series of fresh strikes.

over.

only other alternative for
the Administration, if it wishes
to play a major part in stopping
the strike, says "The Iron Age,"
would be seizure of the steel in-*
dustry. Such an action would be
fraught with danger for the Gov¬
ernment

sarily

and

or

would

not

neces¬

the strike would be

mean

settled

that the entire problem

would not be reopened again at a
later date.
I
' ■
The serious aspect of the strike

which has caused the steel

oper¬

ating rate the past week to reach
its lowest recorded point is that
both sides
from

now seem

farther away

agreement than at any
since demands weremade
an

i time

•,

"bait" of

The

A

January business aurvey; rer and rejected,
leased the past^week by .the .Nar3arring an funsual
be'-;
Association

tional

'

of

Purchasing

development

.from

steel

price

Washington,

Agents and prepared by a com- the ! magazine believes that the
mittee of which George E. Price, u. S. feteel Corp., an important
Jr., purchasing agent of the Good¬ part of the solid front presented
year
Tire
&
Rubber/ Do^;/of by the industry, would not go any
Akron// Ohio, | is / Chairman, ob¬ higher than its 15c. an hour offer.

Iselin Becomes V.-P.
Of Bank of

in

-

a

Virginia

served that in the face of an un¬

The

steel

union

having once
steel strike and
kinds, a creeping paralysis of having accepted President TruN. Iselin, manager of, their New¬
industry caused by labor disputes mah's
compromise
offer
after?
port News branch, from Assistant and strikes is limiting
production having stood firm on its 19.5c. an
Vice-President to Vice-President. to
such an extent that any cur- hour demand is in no position at
Mr. Islin, a native of Newport
rently accurate statement on gen-1 this time to give ground.
It will
News, joined the Bank of Virginia eral * business conditions in this
attempt to win its fight by keep¬
(then the Morris Plan Bank of
country: is extremely difficult.
ing the / mills / shut / down ; and
Virginia) soon after graduating
According to its findings, busi¬ adopting the same principle as the
from the College of William and
industry—an
appeal
to
public
ness activity in some sections and
Mary in Williamsburg in 1925. In
industries: is at a high level and opinion/by? radio and press. ■> >, [
1935, he was transferred to .the
It is brobabie, "The Iron Age"
would continue to expand if men
main
office
in
Richmond
as
and
materials
were
obtainable, continues, that in the near future
Assistant Cashier.
In 1943,' he!
the U. S, Steel Corp/ or another /
went to Roanoke as Asistant Vice- As several major industries now
President and Cashier of that of-j are completely tied up by strikes, steel producer may cancel its
fice, and returned in July, 1944, to the distribution of their products ■union / contract: / ? Sucli; an/ action 1/
Newport News as branch manager. has stopped and manufacturers in would be followed by other steel
Steel
firms
have
Louis
Reekes
and
Paul
H. all sections will necessarily have companies.
taken the position that the cur¬
Brame, formerly Assistant Cash¬ production operations ■ curtailed
/

The Bank of Virginia has /an-5

nounced the promotion of Edward

limited

demand

for

of

materials

postponed / the

all

,

.

prices.

iers, have been made Assistant
More food will be available this Vice-Presidents. Mr. Reekes
joined
year than last but shortages will
the bank's Richmond ' office in
j. persist through the early months 1941 after 15 years in the invest¬
/

^t least on butter, sugar, pork,
panned fish and the better grades
of beef and veal.

'

From/the Associated

Press

economy, Snyder

I said» observing: "The nation which
cadent

called

a

soft and de¬

democracy has proved it-

self young and vigorous/ not
only
in battle, but also in the strains
and shocks of economic
readjust¬
ment.

services
an

On

was

been
In

Reconversion has given a new
test and proof of the toughness

our enemies

ment and sales finance fields. He

V-J

were

Day goods and
being produced at

anhual rate of

elected

January,
we

also quote:
'

$200,000,000,000,

nearly half of it for

shortage."

:

double

machines^ancfother durablTsoods of.*,he American

•VnniH
'could

,

Automobiles—The industry ex¬
pected, before the strike, to make
4,000,000 cars this year, and has

-///■/■■'/'

the basic

-

record.

ize

was

for

and! thus/ far

former

tion

Demand

/ Trade—May

The report stated that unem¬
ployment and/ inflationary pres¬
sure might hit their peak simul¬
taneously early this spring, the
Associated Press continued,
but
added that the estimate of jobless¬
ness
was
more
favorable than

estimates/ being approx¬
imately 3,000,000, compared with
the 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 original¬
ly anticipated. Increased produc¬

-

are

will fop supply

throughout the economic system
may
continue far ; beyond June
''

v

Clothing—Shortages

by the Asociated Press: "It would
foe foolhardy not. to recognize that
the excess of demand over supply

30."

prospects

time

some

for

of

conditions
and, if such a pattern for the set¬
tling of such wages disputes were
forced upon them, it may result
because

"Price controls remain

would hot

suitable

be

to start,

bulwark until production can in¬

Sneer's Report Outlines Economic Safeguards

and

alone

occur

limiting factor./? Reports

$6 a ton in an attempt to assure
acceptance of Mr. Truman's 18,5c,
hourly wage increase has been

5'

continuous

a

have been current that

1

1

said to have later been ap¬
by the President is any

crease

Corporation,

>

that

/.Chester
Bowles
firmly stood, nor the $4 in¬

once

by Con¬
a-time
when demand for goods is strong gress in anticipation of a longer
war
than( occurred
and 1 now
and the business outlook is good:"
should be reduced.
^:
^
/
Unless the budget is balanced
I know of nothing more vitally
^during the period of this existing
important at this time than for
prosperity it may never be bal¬
to make an emphatic
anced until America goes over the Congress
declaration of policy, fixing the
causqs:
precipice of financial catastrophe.
felt that it would hasten an acmaximum debt limit at 275 billion
The budget presented by the
"The belief that/prices will rise cord in the General Motors wage
dollars.
Such a declaration will
gives business men a powerful in¬
President, if strictly adhered to,
dispute byf inaking further ■ re;
have a strong influence towards
centive to buy, hoard inventories,
presents art approach to a balanc¬
sistance by that. company; diff 14,
fiscal sanity.
• >
and refuse to sell; it gives con¬
ed budget for the fiscal year be¬
cult.
Spokesmen
for
industry,
1 have introduced ' this bill at sumers a similar incentive to buy
ginning July 1,1947. It is imper¬
however; were inclined toward
ative that the budget be balanced this time in order to reduce the more than their;: current needs:
the belief that such a pattern had
in that year, putting an end to statutory debt limit to 275 billion With the volume of liquid savings?
been set for-the. auta/ industry
retirement of the debt at

meaning

.

Administrator

Congress of Industrial Organiza¬
tions, With respect to the General
Motors

ends,"

neither the $2.50 per ton increase
on steel products on which Price

Automobile Workers,

United

the

Sunday last,
Chrysler had

' agreements / with

wage

,

adds that it has been told
that the "price situation is open

paper

news was

war.

Asistant

1944.

with

the

Mr.
bank

1943, he became

Cashier
Brame
since

in

has

1929j

of the
operations of this department in
manager

the
Richmond
area.
He
was;
elected Assistant Cashier in Janu¬
ary,

1944.

formerly

Mr.

Herndon

Assistant

Dixon/

Auditor,/ has

been made Assistant Cashier, and
John
B.
Orgain, Jr., Harry S.

Shultz

and

Richard

F.

Bates

are

newly elected Assistant Cashiers.
Joseph A./ Howell, Executive
Vice-President of the VirginiaCarolina Chemcial Co., and Presi¬
dent of the Tobacco By-Products
Co., has been elected a member

"Now, although the war share
output has fallen by about of the Bank of Virginia Board of
$40,000,000,000,
total
national Directors.
•
'
■/- :■:■,;.■■/
production has fallen much less,
The • change in the name^ of the
and stands at about $180,000,000,- Morris
Plan Bank ■ of
Virginia
of

000."

/■■■/>;.//■•.;/

Similar resilience

r

".///

was

/'

-■

shown in

Richmond, to the Bank of Virginia
was

noted in

our

employment: ;■■//
/-.' [page 55. Thomas
"Employment has. dropped .less President.

issue of Jan. 3,
C. Boushall is

by the resulting shortages.
-

The fear of

,

/

,

rent

strike

is

a '

violation of the

production stagna- mo-strike?;-pledge ;/ contained /an

inability-to obtain present rontocts which run out5
materials is reported from all sec15- The union denies this
tions;the survey said. As sources/charge. "
+ *..■%,,■.%* ■/■ ,y,'„
of supply reduce or stop producThe cancellation of steel contion, procurement . of . materials tracts, the magazine concludes,
tion. caused by

frequently

r compels

purchasing would not only, increase the bit-J

to switch tools and pat-; terness in the present controversy,:
to
other /. producers/ and, but would present many more /

agents

ferns

where possible/to beat the estab-/points of differences. . If a settlelishment pf oirket linps bv the ment were to be made, on the basis
rempval of their equipment and of the present steel contracts, the
the? materials that have been com¬ industry fears that a new. strike
issue would- be raised upon/fts

pleted lor their orders.
?. Reports from all sections indi¬ expiration in October. The wip¬
ing out of these contracts would
cate post-war olans for production
mean a battle on the part of the
are .temporarily
stymied and, if
the

current

situation

is

not

remedied promptly, many expan¬
sion programs mav
vised or postponed.

industry to change present, provi¬
sions

;,. /

such

as

which

steel

labor

negotiations in the
can

be

resumed, the current nation-wide
steel

strike, largest in the coun-

try's history, will be long and bitter, stated. "The

based

Labor Board directives.

The

controversy

were

on

/

•

^

American

Iron

Industry—Unless the Ad¬
Institute announced
ministration finds some new basis
Steel

upon

of

maintenance

membership which

have to be re¬ War

this week the

on

and

Steel

Monadv of

oppning rate of steel

companies having 94%
of the
papa/'ity of the industry will
be 5.7% of capacity for the week
*tecJ

J beginning Jan. 28, compared with

Iron. Age," ■ na- ; ' '■ '(Continued; on page 617)

:-

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THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number 4460

.Volume 163

proached the Swiss, asking them
to limit their watch exports dur¬
ing the reconversion period, in
response to strong pressure ex¬
erted
by the Americaq jewel

learning by Costly Experience?
"The flush of false

/not

prosperity can be detected
only in Wall Street, but in every grocery store

in the nation.

.

,

It would be suicidal for

.

our

V

-

watch

Gov¬

self

drop price controls on June 30, when
the present law expires.... Action [must] be taken
promptly because uncertainty as to future policy;
already is slowing down production because of the ;

:

"Let it be

trol

as a

clearly understood, however, that the
regards price con-:
necessary evil.
In normal times we would

now

What

had

State

made it

Another
bor and
other

by costly experience that the
law of supply and demand does not and cannot
bring conditions of equilibrium into being unless
and until' it is permitted to operate freely?
Must we learn in the same expensive way that *
there is no effectual substitute for that law of

of

makers

he ex¬

plained, but none are

applicable in

the

present case.
Asserting that arguments of do¬
mestic watch manufacturers that
Imports in recent months had been
unusually heavy and totaled 34,•475,000 during the 15. years prior
to Pearl Harbor, Mr. Bevans said
the number of watches imported
in the past was

"irrelevant." De¬

mand has been so
'

great, he said,

enough
.available to supply the needs of
the armed forces and
civilians.
'.Action of the WPB in 1943, freez¬
ing all
imported watches, Mr.
"Bevans asserted, is evidence of the
shortage.
: <
■"'
v. //''/ /
that

-

there

never

was

•

■

•

during October, last
were heavy, Mr. Bevans con¬

Imports
-year,

represented merely the
iresult of a backlog of orders and
Tias since dropped off./ At present
there is "no inventory" of watches
ceded, but




and

his

brother-in-law

Mr. Gernerazza said thlat in the

had im¬

we

ported 28,000 Swiss watches and
compared"with total

movements

imports of 34,475,000 during the
15 .years

prior to Pearl Harbor.

how /.the, .Swiss

// Asked

.

could

6,500,

Represeri tative

Knutson
his bill

introducing

in

that Swiss watch factories, "con¬

by

trolled

German-Swiss
cartel," were making timing in¬
struments for Nazi weapons with
which to

the

kill

soldiers while

our

the

the

with

against
others
import quota system is

Swiss

negotiations

not

only

cause

hereabout

embarrassment

some

of

because

view

agreement and the ut¬
good faith"

United

most In breach of

vices

Jan.

18

ad¬

Washington
the

to

the

bill

was

a

New/York

million

Department is said
to have proposed <as an/ interim
quota in a memorandum to the
Swiss Government early in De¬
cember.
The
State
Department
was said to have proposed a limit
of 3,000,000 a year during the pe¬
riod of reconversion of the Amer¬

jewel

Washington

watch
;•

"Times" went
"/• State

industry. The
to /. the
to say: " I//to •/•

to

on

the question

appeared

in

175.

page

Jan.

our

/

■.

imports

10

issue,

to '

'

Excise Tax Rate
Revision

Proposed

A bill to repeal July 1 the war¬

time increases in excise tax rates

has been introduced by Represen¬

our

with

reciprocal trade
Switzerland

was

be¬

that agreement forbids the
United States to invoke
quotas
cause

raised
as

much

as

hell,

did Roosevelt.

citizen.

,

But what is to the

point, is that
leadership of the

country may have had his
they never had,- his heart.

Coolidge was the last

does, it is understandable why he
kissed it off at the press confer¬
ence as he«lid.
Editorial opinion
.

him to make

has forced
sions

and

this

as

conces¬

is, written the

representative group of indus¬
trialists are to come to; Washing¬
ton.
But already the propaganda
Leftist side is that they

from the

have

to

not

are

discussions

any

Truman, although they

from Mr.

...

....

tiveness. " He

is getting irked by
being referred to as timid, weak
and stupid, not references of this
writer but which are appearing
with increasing frequency.
He is
quite sensitive to suggestions that
anyone is controlling or making
up his mind for him, either the

Laborites
Under

the

or

the

Industrialists.

circumstances, he is
a baby to either

liable to act like

group.

■;/:/'./ vto/to

Byrnes' Measures to
Protect United States
Atomic

,

,

...

,,

Knowledge

Apparently in

r

an

effort to allay
American

the

within

concern

delegation to the United Nations
Assembly
about
disclosure
of
atomic energy secrets held by the
without

States

the

ap¬

of Congress, Secretary of
State
Byrnes
before
departing
for the first meeting of the As¬

proval

in London appointed a
five-member
committee

sembly
special
"to

study the subject of controls

and

safeguards necessary to pro¬
tect this Government" during/the
UNO

Atomic

Energy
Control
Dean Acheson,
Under-Secretary of State, heads
the special committee of which
the other/members are John J.
Commission study.

meet him, they are to talk

may

jvicci0y, former Assistant Secre/We
^ary of War; Dr. Vannevar Bush,
all .to the Dr/ JamM B. f!nnflnt and Maj.
nr/ James
R.
Mat.
Conant and

Would say

that that IS

*

good./ / Mr.
Snyder, -when the
story is finally written, will have
turned out to be a real good man.

concerned

not

is

with

the

other prejudices.
business men, has the

labor vote or any

He

information of the in¬

dustrialists, however, they should
keep in mind Mr. Truman's sensi¬

United

Mr. Truman understand¬

'/Now,

is

a

business man's viewpoint and his
main concern is getting the coun¬
try to work.

Gen. Leslie R. Groves.
V

Appointment of the committee
followed by a formal state¬
Byrnes emphasiz¬
ing the fact that the UNO com¬
•

was

ment from Mr.

mission would not have "the

au¬

thority to decide what informa¬
tion the United/. States or
any
He will be a very Government should
place/ at its

good man for the industrialists to
talk to.

fHctirig emotions by his annual
message to Congress.
If they are

disposal."

„

v

'

,

example,
no

the

United

Press

(R.-Minn.),

reported from

Washington, Jan. 19. This would
mean

tax

cutting

on

in

half

the

furs, jewelry, toilet

excise
prep¬

inflationary

are

At the same

work.

championing an

ap¬

six

months

an-

any /•

the

other

United

States

or

should

Government

the

United

States

is

of

concurrence

pretty generally to workers
the country.
These

around

all

workers,

determined

to

spend

money—and: the cashing in
war
bonds is increasing—are

doing it on worthless items, not
to mention the money they- are

Against

this, production is held up, not
only by the strikes, but by the
OPA.
There is seldom a night
that some Leftist radio commen¬
tator
doesn't spring the sensa¬
tional disclosure that
such and
such a manufacturer is holding

the

recommended

ent

the

of

States.

the United

States

recommendation

adopted.
If

perman¬

concurs

could

it

in

the

not

be

to •';///// /" /.'/•:/.. /////: /■/,

the United

and the
the

'

five

including the
Therefore, unless

members,

United

States

•.

concurred

Security Council adopted
it
woi^d

recommendation,

still be for the Government of the

United
States by treaty or by
the selling of his product- Congressional action to determine
shirts, / clothes,;/ etc.—until OPA to what extent that recommenda¬
ceiling prices are lifted.^ They tion should be acted upon. If action
soring this as startling instances is required by treaty it would
of greed on the part of the manu¬ take a two-thirds vote of the Sen¬
Under
facturers.
It is not a startling ate to ratify the treaty.

up

.

one

not

market

Congress

being done.

of these manufacturers

will tell you

from present

formal termination of hostilities.

authority to decide what in¬

formation

their

come

and they have

proximately

*

last for

the

represented,
exchange of
any stated information, this rec¬
ommendation would go to the Se¬
curity Council.
Action by the
Security
Cbuncil
requires / the

pay.
Also, he is
increase in wages

listed

such legislation,

would

from

\ :
reduced appreciably place at its disposal.The statement continued:
and file, those who
are/ hollering about take-home ///If the commission, upon which

some

wartime rates

Press

given

the

for the rank

of

Without

Associated

by

been

have

passage

levels.

men¬

"among

because
forces at
time, taxes

time to reduce taxes

there

to the text of his statement

members
just one Washington, Jan. 7, "such action
could not give to the commission
Mr. Truman says this is

not, the " conservative .
of Congress are.
For -

tioned in the agreement/ Watches
and watch movements are

-

So

they

man

ing Mr. Fairless' move the way he

Any

Department

ear,

kad.///vVr/:/-

1942

The: State

own

inept poli¬
tician which in the light of what
has: come to be a great politician,
is * certainly to his credit as
a

the -industrial

'•

the

term

was an

to

;

one

he did have, he was never his
master. And he

For

to speak,

so

In the

reduced

■

a

mat¬

only this writer's opin¬

revelation that this is

articles.

a

ion but of othersi,. that had he got
a
second term,' he would have

arations, etc., with almost all rates

against any. of the articles

never

It is

frittering away in strikes.

tative Harold Knutson

require President Truman

abrogate

bearing

limiting Swiss watch

on

Department officials/ de-:

agreement

'

advices

clared passage of the Knutson bill

would

are

the Swiss to

ternal German assets.
An item

fewer

and her Allies

pressure on

obtain cooperation in locating ex¬

of

than the State

ican

States

putting

"Times," reporting the introduc¬
tion of the bill of Representative
the
quota/ proposed
Knutson,
in

as a

-

to

Adminis¬

•

what; some officials
conflict with our widely
could voluntarily
advertised foreign trade program,
agree to permit establishment of
but also because while the State
quotas," Mr;/Bevans said.
"But
Department is trying to get this
for Congress to pass the Knutson
Bill would be contrary to the/re¬ -concession from Switzerland, the

According

ter of not

course, using up the dear workers'

savings.

oh,

time

same

The current watch

established.

ciprocal

turned to power, he
Republican at heart.

what is happening: that inferior
products with no background are
marketing
their
stuff
at
any
prices they desire.
That is, of

v
"While our delegation to the
supplying the
Assuming Mr. Truman's idea of
American
market, which could their intentions to be correct, we Assembly may vote to authorize
not' be supplied domestically be¬ can/ nevertheless /appreciate / the a study by a commission of the
international problems raised by
cause our smaller watch industry
justifiability of their visit.; They
the discovery of atomic energy,"
wsts supplying our own and allied
certainly are torn between conMr. Byrnes continued, according
forces.

at

traders-

"The .Swiss

Hoover

say,

actionism, although he is the tar¬
get of the Demagogic Liberals,
although he is cited as the one
and outstanding reason why the
Republicans should not be re¬

He

charged

the

about

to

withmen -Lhe Mr.,Snyder.

supply so many watches, he re¬
plied that they had about 65,000
skilled
watch, workers
to our

.

Schedule Two."

Watch¬

advocating."

last four war years

in this country as shown by jew¬
watch move¬
ments as proposed in the Knutson elry trade surveys, and the de¬
mand this year is expected to be
Bill would constitute a violation
in the vicinity of 10,000,000.
of the Reciprocal Trade Agree¬
"As/matters stand there is still
ment now in
effect with that
an indicated shortage of more than
country and "the utmost in breach
Of good faith."
In indicating the 2,000,000 watches,"^ Mr; Bevans
declared.
"It is expected domes¬
■views of Mr. Bevans, the New
tic
manufacturers
will produce
"York "Times" of Jan. 26 con¬
only about 2,000,000 and if the
tinued:
bill is passed the shortage will be
:
Mr. Bevans, who dias' just re¬
in excess of 4,000,000."
turned from Washington where he
Assemblers, adjusters, repairers
was engaged in a series of / con¬
and manufacturers of cases and
ferences
on
the subject with accessories
for
the
assembled
Covernment officials/asserted that
Swiss watch movement imports,
•enactment of the legislation which
involve the employment of ap¬
•seeks- to place an annual limit • of
proximately 8,000 persons here, he
2,000,000 on the importation of said.
Passage of the legislation
such units, would result in black would curtail
employment as well
market conditions and widespread,
as
causing a serious shortage,
violation pf the law comparable
probable
smuggling and
"dis¬
to that which existed during pro¬ crimination" f a v or in
g certain

Exceptions are provided,

American

of

are

or

;and described in

of

Union,

ernment

Republican

counsel of the
American Watch Assemblers Association, that the establishment of a
•quota
on
the :> importation* / of ♦>

/

Gernerazza, National

Secretary of Commerce
-Wallace, and that Mr.
Bruggmann 'declared it would be
'.'contradictory
of
the
United
States- to cut watch imports and
thus fly in the. face of the free
trade principles which this Gov¬

contended on Jan. 25 by James W. Bevans,

.

many

fighting

are

Henry

of 2,000,000 on the importation of Swiss watches
watch movements is provided for in a bill introduced on Jan. 18

an

America

said here today
that he had talked yesterday with
the
Swiss
Minister,
Charles
Bruggmann, who is a brother-int

An annual limit

certain

the

,

President-

law

when

of

on

fronts/the unionized watch

V Walter W.

Imports—Watch
Assemblers Assn. Sees Violation of Trade Pact

Agree¬
ment between the United States
.and Switzerland, dated Jan. 9,
1936 he pointed out, clearly states
that "no prohibitions, import- or
•customs quotas, import licenses or
any
other form of quantitative
/regulation shall be imposed . . .
by the United States on the im¬
portation and sale of any article,
the growth, produce or manufac¬
ture of Switzerland enumerated

which

angle

industry battle

Watches..

Bill Would Limit Swiss Watch

Article Six of the Trade

the

and

alongside domestic manufacturers
to stop the heavy inflow of Swiss

:

hibition.

curious

likely

the incarnation of Republican re-

situation is that while la¬

watch

is

The irony of politics is,
although Mr. Hoover is cursed as

to.

Must we learn

Swiss watches

trade

associates

tration.

is trying to get
the rest of the world to subscribe

workers

It was

of.

some

One

how

was

unrestricted

his

into the counsels of

move

idge.

this Government

ecutive Council.

•

of

'

and

Government which they have not
been in since the days of Cool-

quoted to the

nondiscriminatory

competitive forces to bring the
selling price down to its natural level."—AFL Ex¬

by Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota, ranking
member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

try to

American

embarrassing to

Department

■

principles

and allow natural

<>r

than

Truman

interpret Mr. Fairless' suggestion
as an effort on the part of indus¬

stepped

sooner

that the importers

tiously and selectively.
The moment production
of any particular article comes within safe range
of meeting the demand for it, the Office of Price
Administration should remove its artificial ceilings;

;

no

Administration officials

some

;

controls should be exercised cau¬

human behavior?

Mr.

manu¬

.

vigorously oppose any such Government interfer|J ence with a free economy.
►
V
"Even

to the

importers of Swiss watches, who
have done a^record business dur¬
ing the war, made strong repre¬
sentations to the department to
permit continuance »of /the im¬
ports.
t
J '*
•

American Federation of Labor
•

war

Ahead of the News

(Continued from first page)

and allied armed forces.

it

But

V

''

r

Washington
//\.

timing instruments for

into the situation

reluctance of business to make advance commit¬
ments in the dark.

during the
own

our

From

industry, which devoted it¬

facture of

ernment to

615

he does not and can
his .products under

Members ©f
have told time after time
ceilings..

all

these

circumstances

I

think

the interests of the United

States

are

.

fully protected.

Before the first session
egation
we

will

have

will have

a

our

del¬

meeting

and

opportunity to
discuss all subjects on the agenda.
an

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

616

ployers to reach' businesslike
adj ustments; with • the unions
(in, stronger bargaining posi¬
tions than they ought to be)

The Year Ahead
(Continued from first page)

necessary to assure fair play
between man and man; in
which neither labor unions

-

suggest that both governmen¬

long

so

over

they lack control
the prices they may now
as

Watts

Thursday, January 31,1946

on

Committee of N. Y.

Financial Advertisers

Community Trust

Distribution in 1945

George J. Watts, Jr., Assistant
Cashier of the Corn Exchange Na¬
tional Bank' and Trust Company
of
Philadelphia, has been ap¬
pointed to
the
Extension
and

The..
Trust

New.

York

Community
$567,349
for

distributed

policy and the drift of
philanthropic purposes in 1945,
or in the future ask for their
compared with $558,746 in 1944.
popular feeling is in such di¬
Outpayments were made from 50
rections as these that prudent products,? There is no observ¬
nor business organizations are
Planning Committee of the Finan¬ memorial funds to 226
able reason to suppose that
agencies
men hold back from subscrib¬
cial Advertisers Association.
Mr.
in 28 states.
permitted to monopolize any
During the period the
; the situation will change in Watts is in charge of the advertis¬ trust
area in our economy; in which
ing fully to the glowing pre¬
dispensed a larger amount
dictions for this year now ;this
respect in .the early ing ahd public relations depart¬ from more funds to a greater
no element in the population
ment of Corn Exchange.
number of recipients over a wid¬
future.
is subsidized and none penal¬ heard in many quarters de¬
er
area
than in any prior year.
The
ized; in which government spite all the strikes.
A Wholesome Response
The average payment was
; Military Currency Used
$2,510
in 1945, $2,972 in 1944. The ad¬
steps back into its traditional thoughtful man would find it
We are, of course, fully
By Army and Navy Forces
vices from the
role—we may insist upon all a little difficult, or so it seems
Community Trust
aware of the common belief
futher said:
In Japan and Korea
./•>,:'77 7 "7
this, make a real beginning to us, to restrain his optimism that the
pent-up demand and
The largest allocations went to
The Treasury, War and Navy
in giving it effect, and usher for the future if only he could
tal

,

.

.

feel certain that business will

long period of economic
progress. •••.
v/:/:
in

*

-

a

The choice is with

<ymage

us.

be left

The affairs and solve its

own

own

prob¬

the accumulated

unspent war

override all this in the
of

few months.

a

continuous^ in¬

course

We are not

'

arguing that point. We are
not particularly disposed to
matters as the budget ; and disagree with much that is
being said in this connection.
management of the now stu*
What troubles us is this: Is
pendous nat i on a 1 debt—
the response to this demand
where governmental opera-*
likely to be wholesome and
tions inevitably and Unavoidr
lasting under conditions
ably bear directly upon busi¬

crystal-hall, not by employof mystic or foolish foryrnulae of which many appear
to have grown fond, but by
,a, search of our own mindsi
our own: prejudices and our
emotions.

which the political situation
ness, common sense, reasonseems to promise?
able prudence and thrift could
cific, we shall have to come to be counted on. Such factors
More Export-Import Bank
some
understandings rather as these could well make all
the difference between unin¬ Credit to Ecuador
promptly if the full measure
An increase of $780,000 in a line
of our opportunity is to be terrupted progress during the
of
credit
originally granted to
realized this year. One of the remainder of this year and
Ecuador in. 1942 has been" ap¬
most fundamental.is this: We halting, irregular return to
proved by the Board of Directors
shall not get full production, peacetime pursuit?; all the of
the k Export-Import 7 Bank,
To

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| pass from the general
the somewhat mor£ spe-

to

and at the same time prevent difference between solid
price changes which are es¬ growth of long-term prosper¬
sential to make this possible. ity and the development of a
Insisting upon "a law" and at feverish, unnatural and un¬
the same time permitting, not wholesome activity in 1946.
to

encouraging, .defiance
l or evasion of it,
will-not,
moreover, serve the purpose
in this price situation. That
is to say, actual price adjust¬

is, of course, not enough
that the President has
shown signs of being willing

will

to make concessions here and

say

ments via black markets

Enough

"Concessions" Not
It

to say

lay the basis for the eco¬ there,
nomic progress we must have. where
not

out

a

perhaps generally,

or

claimants

can

"make

case" for higher prices.

Price Adjustments

Inevitable The economic system simply
.the deliberate action cannot operate effectively on
long before the war started, any such basis.; In the first
and by continuation of the place, neither the President
same type of action in a de¬
nor any of his advisers—or
gree far more than was neces¬ all of them together—are in
sary during the war, the na¬ any position to judge half so
tional government has enor¬ well as the market place as
mously inflated our "money to whether higher prices in
supply" as it is now termed, any particular case are or are

the
The
original credit line of $1,200,000
Wayne G. Taylor, President of
Bank, announced on Jan. 22.

was

and the situation

in

now

our

not warranted.

ex¬

fi¬

nancial mechanism. We shall
do

well to

evitability
ments.

If

recognize the in¬
of price adjust¬
we

fail to

do

In the second

place, the business man can¬
not possibly take the time and
incur the expense of trying a
case

each time he must set

a

each one of the
if we insist that somehow, by
many things he produces or
fiat control of the economy, sells.
Moreover,
one ( price
we can refuse to
pay the piper may be "right" today, and an¬
and thrive, : if we -foolishly other tomorrow—and still an¬
proceed upon the supposition other the next day. And all of
that wage increases and other them each
day will depend
price

or

upon

so,

other prices,/ perhaps
other prices, fixed inde¬

on

,

additions to

duction

can

the cost of pro¬
be made again

many

and

again and again without pendently of him. V
corresponding "adjustment of rf In fine, the outlook for the
prices, if upon such assump¬ remainder of this year de¬
tions we permit, not to say?
pends in larger measure than
encourage, the national gov¬ many of us realize upon a
ernment to inject itself more firm refusal to add further
and
as

more

into

the

rigidities to those already imposed : by government upon
business,/ and the progress
made in eliminating - those
now
plaguing :v the business
man. Who can doubt that one

economy

regulator andmanager, , we
be sorely disappointed

shall

.

with the results of the year—

,

if pent-up forces are strong
enough, to over-ride such interferences for the time being,; of the reasons for the continwe shall have good cause for
uance of labor difficulties at
or

later, date.
, the present time—perhaps the
orecisely because controlling reason for them—
indications strongly is a natural hesitancy of em¬

ref*ret—at

some

Yet it is

present




,

to assist in the financing of a

Pan

of: the

section

American

:

between Guamote and
Tambo and a lateral road from
Tambo to Duran, says the an¬
nouncement,
which
adds
that
Ecuador,
however,
has
been
financing the construction Of the
Highway

Tambo

Duran

to

road

her

from

The

from
The

Export-Import' Bank.
total of $1,980,000 it is
/

new

the

for

available

is

stated

con¬

struction of the Guamote to Tam¬

link

bo

Highway.

American

Pan

the

of

-

/

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"The credits

~

to assist in the construction of the

Highway," Mr.
Taylor said, "carry out the policy
of V the
Export-Import Bank to
make
developmental
loans
in
where

such

loans

ex¬

are

pected to broaden the economy of
the borrowing country in a man¬
which

ner

will

tend

increase

to

exports and imports of the United
States."

advices

The

from

the

:

■

said

:?■

in
, ■

•

United States Army and Navy
forces in the main and outlying
islands of Japan and in Korea are

Using

military

supplemental

a

St.

Mary's Hospital for Children
The for¬

and the Salvation Army.

received $70,000 and the lat¬
The National War
Fund benefited by $38,050 and the

mer

ter

$61,893.

American

Red Cross by $28,752.
Payments to the Community Ser¬
Society were $41,835 and to
the Visiting Nurse Service $33,-

currency denominated in yen as
well as local legal tender cur¬

vice

In order to distinguish besupplemental i military
currency used in these two areas,
the letter "B" has been imprinted

recipients
included
.Hospital,
; $32,000;
Bowery Branch Y.M.C.A., $14,077;
Hebrew University in Palestine,
$13,924; United Hospital Fund,
$13,086; and Children's Tourna¬

rency.

tween the

on

military currency notes for
in the main and outlying is*

the

use

lands of Japan and the letter "A"
the military currency notes for

on

use

in Korea.

military

cur¬

rency notes bear on their face
the words "Military Currency" in

English and in Japanese and on
the reverse side the words "Issued
to

Military Proclama¬
tion" in both languages,
: This supplemental military yen
currency has been issued in seven
denominations, namely, 10 and 50
sen arid I, 5, 10, 20 and 100 yen,
There are 100 sen to the yen. The
notes in the denominations of 10
and 1 yen

sen,

50

the

size of the U.

sen,

are

one-half

S. dollar

cur¬

rency. The 5 yen and 10 yen de¬
nominations are somewhat larger
than the

notes, and 20 yen and
notes are the size of the
sen

100 yen

U.'S. dollar note.-

-

;

•

Other

ments and Exhibits in

Parks, $12,-

200.

.

It

the

twenty-second year
of the Community Trust's grants
that began with $20 in 1924. An
aggregate of $5,181,860 has been
V

The supplemental

Pursuant

105.

Montefiore

was

paid out, of which $2,224,174, or
43%, has been disbursed in the
past 48 months. Seventy funds*
ranging fromainder $1,000 to over
$1,000,000, are grouped, in the
Community Trust for administra¬
tion.

The

founder

each

of

may

designate the charitable purposes
preferred but instructs the trust
to make appropriate amendments
if

griginally

later
W.

become

Aldrich

projects

supported
obsolete.

is

Winthrop
chairman of the

Trustees' Committee and Thomas

M. Debevoise heads the Distribu¬
tion Committee,

•

Military yen supplement the
legal tender currency in
Japan and Korea; namely Bank
of Japan and state notes in Japan,
and • Bank
of ; Chosen
notes in
Korea, and are interchangeable

£" The Tile Council of America has
elected

local

without

rate of

distinction

for

at

Japanese
military yen scrip (used by Japan
in the Japanese occupied terri¬
tories) has been declared not legal
one

one;

tender and is not

interchangeable
with supplemental yen or local
legal tender currency.
No general rate of exchange be¬
tween the yen and the dollar has
been
established.
However, for
U.

an

purposes,

Burcfcenal 1946 Hebd
H.

Charles

Burchenal,

to serve during 1946
Chairman
of
the
Advisory

Cincinnati,
as

Committee, the directing body of
Council, it was announced in
New York on Jan. 22. ' Mr. Bur¬

the

chenal,
bridge

President of the Cam¬
Manufacturing Co.,

Tile

succeeds Norris E.

Phillips, Vice(N.Y.) Tile

President of the Olean

Co., who has served a? Chairman
the past year, and who re¬
initial mains as a member of the Advisory

S. military and naval pay and

accounting

Tile Council Elects

for

has

also

conversion rate of 10 supplemental

Committee.

military yen equal one U. S. dol¬

Bank also state:

Ecuador

part:

the

granted to Ecuador

PanAmerican

cases

which

statement,

therewith

funds without resort to loans

own

.7 By

istence is frozen into

Departments issued on Jan. 23 a

earnings of individuals will joint

terference by the politicians
and if—as is the case in such

ment

-

without

lems

of the year ahead is

Ireally to' he found not,Mk p>

own

attend to its

to

which celebrated its first anniver¬

agreed
to
advance $780,000 from her. funds

lar

toward

Ryukyu

used

the

in

invasion

Tile

The

Council,

of

sary on Jan. 22, it is indicated, is a
functioning.: organization provid¬
ing a central source of informa¬
Quevedo Manta road, a portion of rate was superseded as of Sept. 4, tion concerning production figures,
another lateral of the Pan Amer¬
1945 by a rate of 15 yen equal one uses and applications of tile, and
ican Highway, to supplement a
U. S. dollar which is the conver¬ is carrying: forward major pro¬
loan of $2,500,000 made by the sion rate now being used in the
grams -of ;
(1)
developing /and
Export-Import Bank in" 1942 for main and
outlying
islands of promoting new uses for tile and
this purpose;'
(2) cooperating with union-con¬
Japan and in Korea.
.
V'.
tractor joint apprenticeship com¬
Between 1940 and 1943 the Bank;
Under
existing
arrangements'
also assisted Ecuador in financ¬ U. S. military and naval personnel mittees to help channel new men
ing the construction of theCuenca may remit in dollars to the United into tile setting in expectation of
Loja link of the Pan American States at the above rate all or any the develooment of a record de¬
Highway with a loan of $1,230,- portion of the amount of their pay mand for tile in the years ahead,
000.
Thus, totaj Export-Import drawn by such personnel in yen the announcement stated. •';* The
Council
represents7; companies
Bank assistance to Ecuador on be¬
for their local expenditures, They
half of the Pan American High¬
manufacturing 90% of the wall
may also remit in dollars to the
and floor tile produced in this
way and its
laterals amounts to United States yen- arising from
$5,710,000. / Upon completion f of dollar instruments, such as remit¬ country.
• ,«

the

of

construction

the

was

.

Okinawa and other islands of the

This conversion

group.

^

all

construction

these

credits,

"ichway
to

in

provided

the

Pan

Ecuador is

be passable

in

all

for

in

American

expected

weather for

about 625 miles, out:of 740

miles,

between its northern and southern

borders.

The. portion remaining
unprovided for lies between Loja
and the Peruvian border.

The

notes

Ecuador

to

of

the

,

be issued to the

port-Imoort Bank under this

of

Exnew

enlarged "credit-;line .mature
semi-anual

installments

period of Twelve

years

date of issue and carry

4%.>

•'V'\\*kT'•

"•V"*--'

in

over

from

official

a

the

interest at
'

channels.

cashed through
U. S. soldiers

sailors leaving

and

the

area

may

held by
them, if obtained from the sources
just mentioned, for dollar cur¬
rency.
The' relevant army and
navy appropriations are charged
exchange

for

,

Republic

tances from home,

the

used
and

yen

dollar equivalent; of.. yen

by U. S. forces
naval

to

Navy

priated
the

control

of the

Congress .over

expenditures of
forces is maintained.
the

for military

expenditures properly

War Department
Department appro¬
funds.
In this manner

chargeable
and

currency

the
.'

S.

U.
'

V.

M.

Alexander, President of

the National Tile and Manufactur¬

ing

Co., of

elected
tee.

to

Anderson,

the Advisory

Ind.* was
Commit¬

In addition to Mr. Burchenal

and Mr.

Phillips, Davis A. Cable,

President

of

the

United

States

Quarry Tile Co.. Canton, Ohio; D.
P. forst, President of the Robert¬

Manufacturing Co., Trenton,
J.; R. E. Jordan, Jr., Treasurer
Co., Zanesville;
Ohio; and R. J. Schroeder, Presi¬
dent, of the Pomona Tile Manu¬
facturing Co., of Los Angeles,
son

N.

of the Mosaic Tile

were
re-elected
Committee.

to

the

Advisory
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index to

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$252.7

1946__i._-__.

$275.0

balance, ;june 30, 1940...,_

Net debt June 30,;

$263.1

•Gross

debt/ June 30; 1947J77/—7
Cash balance, June
30, 19471-__v-

Net'debtfJune: 30,11947-.*.,,..;..^

-,

11.9

,

$271.0
—3.2

$267,8

-

"Any Administration that wants
to dissipate its, cash
balance can
reduce

the gross debt at
any time.
It's like drawing gw one's
savings
laccount to meeLan: overdraft on
the checking account, :
^ '
!

r*'No;

<

?; budgetary

President

manipulation

substitute for thrift and effi¬
cient management.
Heal Federal
government

,

can

come

living

requirements will be.
!
"The President includes

'its

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in

on

wheat

Budget $1.75 billion for interna¬
tional finance.

Whether this

In forbidding or limiting the
selling of the new Kaiser-Frazer
Corporation's stock for varying reasons, the security-commissions of
Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, have highlighted the great confusion re¬
sulting from differences in Blue Sky legislation between the States,

President's
requests,1 If it
required, however, it probably
Congress

the

on"

level

international loan

the

once

Treasury

Corn

i-1

—"Costs of President's New ^».
■'

overlapping of Federal and State securities legislation. As
under, the divorce statutes in America, an. individual can be simul¬
taneously a saint in one State (Nevada), and a through sinner in an¬

very

other

(New York).> Like: divorce, the regulation of securities sales
nationally .uniform in letter as well as spirit—particularly
the-federal machinery is established in the SEC's administration

should be
as

of the Securities Act of 1933.

!

In Indiana the securities commission limited Kaiser-Frazer sales
gfain,; reached ? hew' to lots of a 100-share minimum, or an outlay of $2,025, on the theory
that this confines distribution "to- those who :can afford to take the
for' the bast :25 years, t
years.

Rye; , the

but j risk.'J. But how, in; the absence of full information-about the resources
prospective buyer, a conclusion about what he can or cannot
tremely light Couritry offerings l afford is to be inferred, is wholly;impossible to understand. In any
were
somewhat1 larger ; but still j event, if such determination of
"ability-to-speculate" nevertheless is
too small to satisfy the demand. arbitrarily based on the
quantity of stock sold to an individual; log¬
|
Flour bookings expanded
ically the size of the sale should be fixed at a maximum, not a min¬
during)
the week, but ^ the. tightness in I imum, level. 4! Surely many
prospective buyers can less well afford to
wheat ; continued a: drawback to - lay out the prescribed $2,025 minimum than a smaller
amount, and
.was

Proposals

"He

requests approval of an
addition
$1.5; billion
to
meet

"actively

in V that

trading

our

v-

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.

of

continued

in; recent-

high, ground

opened ;to foreign

are

borrowers."'1:'

doors

and from

cash

most % active ^

will be: insufficient to satisfy the
flood - of' loan, requests* that will
eventuate

situation

The

tight and visible supplies of that
grain: were - reported decreasing
at a rapid rate.. Cash oats were in
good demand and sold at the best

sum

will be needed depends to a large
extent upon legislative^ action by
the

ceiling limits!

7;;:!:::'7'.7!-!7' J"!

by the government, will very importantly govern labor's ability to
strikes, as well as its long-term strength. ,7.

vances recorded in all distant de¬
liveries not already
pressing hard

against

(Continued from first page)

.

call recurrent

<
!
%£
Firmness in leading' grains was
maintained
last week with ad¬

his

617

Surely the national policy determining whether
individuals voluntarily quitting their jobs to strike, shall be subsidized

at this: date a year ago;

,i

;

only by

within

«•'"}•

,

week for 26 weeks.

new post-war
high of
Jan. 22, compared with
Jan. 15, and with 175.39

on

182.72

requested

Army and Navy themselves have
not determined
just what .their

can

'debt reduction

has

time when the Congress and the

is

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a

183.38

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carrying the Dun & Bradstreet
daily .wholesale commodity price

$16 billion for the armed forces at

Cash

*tA.

Wholesale Commodity Price In¬
dex—The rising trend of prices
continued through the past week

could provide all the jobs and fa¬
cilities that are needed?
:
J

Gross debt, June 30,

;

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previous week and four in

the same week of last
year.

(Continued from first page)

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mitted to Congress and the
closing
:1945 daily Treasury statement: '

Net debt Dec. 30, 1945_,J1

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THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Budget Misleading
'Gross 'debt, "Dec! .30, 1945

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Calls Presidentfs ^fi|||||

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increased

sought,

t

was < ex- i of each

grain:

-

offerings.
Hog' must strain their resources to meet the higher outlay.
•'
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firmly at ceilings |
; In Michigan Kaiser-Frazer sales were forbidden because of the
receipts fell sharply due to the * new company's inability to meet its law
proven
approach to posals he has forwarded to Con¬
prescribing either an ade¬
strike of packing house workers. ! quate
solvency, which all ; of us ap* gress.
These would
earnings record or book value. If the sale price of common
make
the
Cotton
preciate in. the conduct? of our Federal Government
prices edged slightly; stock exceeds the book value/earnings of at least 5% on such
price
responsible
upward last week; despite the un¬ must have been achieved. No such restriction
personal/affairs, the- President's for so-called.! full,
applies to preferred
employment,
budget iS; woefully deficient. He supplemental
certainty created by the OPA an-: stock distribution.
H
unemployment in¬
nouncement that it
Anticipates'. revenue of. $32.9 bil¬ surance benefits, a
proposed to
In Ohio-sales were forbidden; because of that State's
comprehensive
regulation
lion#: which after ; adjustment'for health and medical care
place ceiling flimits! ori the-1946 that its securities commission
program,
must.affirmatively find that the price
old age And Survivors'
cotton, crop. Sales were moderate of a new issue is not unfair... Thus the
insurance airport
State validates with its implied
development; Great Lakesand refunds
during most of the week: but stamp of
drops to $29.9 bil¬ St. Lawrence development,
approval the price of those issues which it permits to be
peaceT
lion.
prices rose as demand and volume sold.
time food subsidies,
permanent
:\;7//j '7;,/.,7-7v:7
>■ -7,
improved late/ in, the; period, re¬
"Thisestimate may, proveexr school lunch '<; These events in .the Kaiser-Fraser-distribution have
program, aids to
markedly
cessive unless the President soon
the- growing country¬ accentuated the permanent
education, yalley authorities, in¬ flecting
tendency of the public in its belief that
takes steps to cope with the labor creased
wide opposition to the; OPA maxi¬ the fact of SEC
; Federal
mean3.

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"When it comes-to this
orderly,
,

*<■

"tried

and

-

: mill

values remained

^pehditutes! uhdei^ vario^

.

as

..

,

f

.

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registration connotes goverment approval of an
ceiling plan.
Although the issue's price and general merit. In fact they have iorced the Commis¬
telegraph strike hindered trading sion to issue .a public denial thereof and another,
explanation of its
somewhat! considerable ; forward "neutral" position on new issues. ' Ever .since the
formulation of our
buying developed; which - lifted federal securities legislation in 1933 the
danger of this misconception
futures prices to new highs for has been
recognized by experts here, as it has been in England. While
the season. \ The New -York spot this drawback in
national securities regulation can never be com¬

payj; permanent

strife

that is ;curtailing the na¬
housing program, increased lend¬
tion's productivity and
taxpaying ing authority for the Rural Elecability. " >*7 ?* ■7•; -:.,< -t'
v
trification Administration, etc, 1;
"On; the expenditure side of his ; "If any number
t of J these are
Budget; the President demon¬ adopted, by
Corigress, the; Presi¬
strates: an affinity -for> the cosfly dent's $1.5 billion
suggested ex¬
deficit-spending practice which penditure^couMii't:: possibly fihas characterized the New Deal .nance them
for a year,
tThe,v
since its inception in 1933.
He would be. costly; encroachments
proposes to spend $34.2 billion; upon the rights and
responsibili¬
including het; outlays for govern* ties of States and individuals and
ment; corporations and after adr the
Budget would be further out
justments fori refunds.
of balance."
k f
y
■'This Ueaves a deficit' ot
In concluding Senator Bridges
^$4.3
billion which. I maintain, is un¬ said; "I
urge the- taxpaying citi¬
warranted and inexcusable.
The zens of the nation to try and un¬
^Budget can be and should he'bal- derstand
that
the
President's

mum

,

'

.

quotation closed at 25.53 cents, up
points for the week, and 3.27
cents

above

Itnced.

^

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"For example, why is it neces^
sary to increase the xivii departr
ihents. and agencies':expenditures
;

to

$1.5 billion from $1.2 billion
in 1946?
Aren't Federal payrolls

non-essential

bureaucratic

activities:; already; over-inflated?
"Why must $1.1 billion be spent
public works at a time when
•industrial
activity, if it were
r

'•

on

freed

from

Federal

oppression,

it

stead,

it

is implied

•

to be.

deficit

that receipts

are

under

now

one

month

year

80.6%
88.7% one

ago,

ago.

crease

ago and
This represents an in¬
of 0.8 point or 16.4% from

that of the previous week.
This week's operating rate

,! equivalent to 104,400 tons of

j

is

steel

ingots and castings and compares
with 89,700 tons one week
ago,

1,476,300 tons one month ago and
1,625,200 tons oriPr year ago.

.

^

Electric Production

son

-— The
Edi¬
Electric Institute reports that

"the output of electricity increased
to

4,145,116,000 kwh. (revised fig¬
ure); in the week ended J an( 19,
1946, from 4,163,206,000 kwh. (re¬
vised figure)' in the
preceding
week. Output for the week ended

;

Jan:

19, 1946. however,

below that for the
5-

,

weekly period

one

was

9.7%

corresponding
year

ago.

'

Consolidated Edison Co. of New
:

^York

reports - System output of
200.800,000
kwh.
in J! the week

ended

;;

Jan.

20,

184,900,000

kwh. for. the

corre¬
an

1945,

recorded

steers and

This,

resents

were

The. current

the similar

mand

per

mercial

and

week!"

industrial

'

last

24,

16

parable week of 1945.

reported
...

•!/..

/

as

compared with
•

■-

••«•

•

t.

.

-

in

men's
and
women's shoes,
Men's and boys' suits suits were
heavily demanded and stocks re¬

i

'

;

..

5'

were
seven
,

mained

low.

Furniture stocks continued low

with

future

able.

deliveries

Household

unpredict-

appliances

of

retail

country
this

Retail

Trade-—

at

de¬

large

week

food

the level

of

moderately

volume
last

.

rose

week and

• over

a

year

sold

.7

was

ago.

Wholesale volume this week

as

'

over

re¬

among
Food

slight

other retail
departments

declines

from

the

previous week, estimated at 3%
due to the meat strike and butter

shortage,

f~
•;Buyers were active in whole¬
sale markets during "the 7 week,;.

engaged

in .the rather dubious
lining up spring require¬
ments since textile and apparel
production/has ribt increased to a •
point commensurate with! currerit
demand.
Wholesalers, however,
wefe busily: employed in building,

task of

about

with that of last week

according to Dun

Slocks of hard Foods continued to

has been noted in several years,

Bradstreet, Inc.. in its current

increase gradually, but soft goods
stocks, dwindled considerably. ;. 7

7

year

of

ago,

trade

Consumers
scarce

Re¬

some

7

past

continued

While there

week.

to

than

.

Dressy suits

Fur sales

was

merchandise, it

concentrated
last year.
•

the

were

at

the

rush

a

was

less

end

:.;..7'
were very

and

of

/

popular

stimulated by

even

high level and

moderately above

Department

buy

items whenever they were

available.
for

year ago.

failures

large volume

a

1945.

like¬

a

review

was

v-;Four.:. Canadian

a

trend

the

routine

with

tion/of

occurring

for

Retail

noted

mained at

&

which failures have exceeded the
number

was

quickly when available..
and

wise

of

were

Very substantial gains

showed

There

ranging 30%

week

over a

com¬

This

general

similar

was about equal with
that of last week and was
slight1;'

failures

in the

in

tail volume

com¬

compared

as

week and

foods

scarfs and neck¬
during the week.

the

distributors.

-

rep¬
of the price

cos¬

the

in retail trade was
marked; here in New, York
past week with department

Cosmetics and other toiletries sold

potatoes,

heavy purchasing-subsided.

increase, reports Dun
& Bradstreet,. Inc.
In the week
ending Jan. 24, concerns failing
20

pound of 31

continued

an

numbered

total

sum

Wholesale

% Business Failures Rise-^-Fpr the
consecutive

the

jewelry,
increased

Stocks of

in¬

Activity,
very

well.

ago.

use. ■

period of 1944, a de¬
49,175 cars, or 6.2%, is
-

eggs,

above

wear

were

sheep,' The index

was : a decrease of 23,083
(or 3.0%) below the pre¬
ceding week and 28,097 cars, or
3.6%
below
the
corresponding
week! of 1945,
Compared with

showed

year

year to date showed an
of 11%.

crease

store sales estimates

tume

above

during the week

ing declines

cars

second

0.5%
a

the

sories was raised.

drop of

a

shown for flour,
rye,
oats and
19,1946, total lambs, while commodities reflect¬

shown.

impor tant, omissions

cessfully for hosiery were re¬
ported turning to nearby acces¬
sory
counters; volume of hand¬
bags, neckwear and other acces¬

for

week, resulting

however,

was,

$4.10

Advances

also the second week this year in




from last

the

1946, comparing
with 196,500,000'kwh. for the corresponding week of 1945, or an
increase of 2.2%.-tLocal distribu¬

electricity amounted to
.193,200,000 kwh.,' compared, with

registered $4.12*

749,475 cars.; the ' Association of
American
Railroads
announced.

of

is strongly impressed with some of the
really

reductions for clearance purposes.
Many customers searching unsuc¬

mainly from a seasonal decline in
price of eggs.
This figure,
the. lowest recorded since Oct.
30,

Freight
Loadings ~Carloadings of revenue freight for
the week ended Jan.

-.77.^1

Press and public 'reactions to the President's
message to the Coni

in the foreign sphere.

the

Railroad

crease

index

Jan. 22

sponding week of last year,
increase of 4.5%. |
;

food 7 price

2 cents

(Continued from page 614)
week

one

the

Wholesale Food Price Index Off
for Week—The Dun & Bradstreet

The State o! Trade
one

-

accompar

wholesale

4.9%

'

V4' .•

.

varying degrees of its domestic
phases, but apprpv^g of its international content. ; But on reflection

cotton /export program

nied by talk of possible further
reductions in domestic wool prices.

half tiines greater."

a

$

ill. ;:'P-.

r

period, despite - the : fur¬

ther fact
six and

-//

.

the

of

"

.77/

.

In¬

billion. deficit! contemplated for
1947 is one-third greater than the
1933-40

be greatly lessened by the abolition of the

Mr. Truman was wholly inadequate respect¬
prograrii to 1,- ing statements of policy toward our
prospective bases in the Pacific
090,800 bales..
Activity in the which were formerly owned by or mandated to Japan—a
question
gray % cotton .cloth
market
fell left open during and after San
Francisco; the questionjof, inuriigratiori
sharply last week following the to Palestino7 irom Europe; - bur joint policy toward THritain and
spurt Jn; sales noted in the; pre¬ Russia! in the ' Near rind Middles
East; the ririiciaUy7 important de¬
ceding v week^ ^ Business -7 was termination of our Civilian
administration of - Germany and Japan;
largelyiri7stap!k pnrii clothsj and and a clear and inclusive
conception of the use of atomic energy, -.
sheetings for the bag trade.
In the field of foreign; affairs
particularly, the President cannot
7 A Jmoderate amount of domestic
compensate for the absence of clear recommendations on his part, by
wools sold in the 7 Boston wool
passing the responsibility .on to Congress. Surely public letter-writ¬
market 7 last 7 week. :
Ibere ,. ap¬ ing% to Congressmen, cannot afford the: means of determining and ad¬
peared to be a general improve¬
ministering .constructive or consistent foreign policy.
"
ment in: the Undertone
sales

tices! while: insisting
upon con¬
tinued; taxation • at , present bur¬
densome levels. ^ In fact the $4.3

average : annual

can

conflicting and thoroughly bewildering state Blue Sky

'

gress have generally been critical in

the week ended Jan. 12
totaled 40,300 bales,-bringing total

deceptively : continues
deficit-financing prac¬

New Deal

'f"

low rate. 7 Registrations

very

under the

is
riot
thestability^
prpducirig,;,goodrgov.ernment doc-

ument

a

during

i'' Budget*

Cites 'Increased Expenditures

and

;into Government stocks continued
at

of

mass

corresponding laws.
Movement of cotton v/^t;:

1945 ! price.

,

great

the

.

•

pletely eliminated, it

25

store

country-wide basis,
the

Federal

dex

for

the

as

Reserve
week

was

a year ago.

sales on a
taken from
Board's

in¬

ended Jan. .19,

1946, increased by 19% above the

jip Inventories and: in

period last year. This com¬
pared with an increase of 20%
(revised figure) in the preceding
same

week.
Jan.

four

preceding week.

weeks

ended

Jan.

price sales increased by 13%

For the

19,

1946,
and for

to

Bank's

in

the

lipes

the Federal Re¬
index, .department
store sales in New York City for
the
weekly period to Jan. 19,
1946,
increased 30% above «the
According

serve,

period, of.k last, year.
This
compared with an increase of 13%

same

some

received riaore encouragement on
supplies from manufacturers than

For the four weeks ended

19, 1946,

sales

rose

by

19%

and tor the year to date increased

by 14%. 77

v.:,...'7

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

618

Items About Banks,
Trust

Jan.

,

vious

New loans underwritten

Companies

Hamilton
Loan

-

A.

W. Beamand, representative
Bank
Limited,

Westminster

London; Westminster Foreign
Bank

Limited, will

Bank

Ulster

and

Limited

to new offices

move

Herman F. Whiton,

.

elected

President of
Co., has been

member of the Board of

a

serve

number of our
and the Travel

growing

a

broker customers,

at One Wall Street on Feb. 1.

the Union Sulphur

importance in the bank's progress.
Clearance Department was
established at our downtown of-?
I ice in the financial district, to
The

Department was inaugurated at
our principal office in Rockefeller
Center; it provides a travel service
to all our clients, besides supply-?

Co. of New York, according to an

ing their needs for Travelers' Let-?
ters
of
Credit
and
Travelers'

announcement made

Checks."

Trustees of the United States Trust

by William¬

Pell, President.

son

•:'V-:

•'Xv't-T

v,;-;,%:;■,

George S. Stephenson, Comman¬

der, USNH, recently released from
theNavy, returns to the Fifth
Avenue' office of Bankers Trust
Co.

Assistant Treasurer. Shortly

as

75th annual

meeting of
Continental
Bank & Trust Co. of New York,
held on Jan. 16, five of the direct
the

At

stockholders, i of

whose

tors

three-year

were! .Ellsworth

after

They

Mr.

President

graduating from Princeton,
Stephenson became associated

expired

terms

for

reelected

the

,

terms.
Bunker;

National

the

of

werq

Sugar

Co.;
Siegfried
Gabel,
President olHagedOrn & Co.; Carl

in 1925.
He
went into active service in Feb¬

Refining

ruary, 1942.

Federal

Association,

.

crossed

of

the

by the
Savings and
of ^ Brooklyn

million-dollar

level

during r 1945 for the first time" in
the 56-year history of the organi¬
zation, the annual report to stock¬
holders disclosed today. The As¬
sociation reports that it handled
a total of
$1,172,380 in new loans
during
1945,' representing % 230
mortgage underwritings, compared
with $623,400 in 1944.- Total re¬
sources, it is stated, climbed to a
new high of
$5,166,283 at the 1945
year-end, compared with $3,825,?
037 a year earlier. Mortgage loans
represented 59.8 and - 61.0%, re¬
spectively, of: total resources for
the two periods.
New income for
1945

totaled

$91,857,
compared
with $73,788 in 1944.
After divi¬
dends of $57,685 for .1945, there
was
carried through to reserves
and undivided profits a balance
of $34,172.
Share capital at the
close of 1945 amounted to $4,636,601: against $3,650,410 at the end
of 1944.
r
v— v;,
•
'

Qv Hoffmann of the law firm of

with

the

company

Kadel

Allan

K.

Murray

Bankers Trust

returns

of New

Co.

to

York

Assistant Treasurer and will be

as

assigned to the Rockefeller Center
office, which will be open as soon
as alterations are completed.
Mr.
Murray graduated from Harvard
in

1923.

In

he entered the

1925

James E. Shields.

a' meeting of the Board

of

Trustees held Jan. 15, the follow?

ing

.

were made in the
official staff of the Dry Dock Sav¬

The

election

of

Raymond

F.

Department

of

Bankers

"He
who

succeeds

has

Joseph H. Miller,
elected

been

Secretary.

^

Following

Board
of

of

meeting

a

Directors

the: Manhattan

New

of

of

the

the' Bank

Company"

of
24, F. Abbot
President, ; announced

York

Jan.

on

Goodhue,*

urers, and Elsworth F. Keppeler
has been elected Assistant Secre¬

Nils F. Brandin,

Vice-Presi¬
dent of Bankers Trust Co. of New
York, died on Jan. 25 at his home
in Summit, N. J., after a brief ill¬
ness. ' Mr. Brandin
was born hi
a

the promotion of William J. Ahern
from Assositant Vice-President to

New York City 53 years ago and

Vice-President.

had recently

Mr.

Ahern

will

be

officer-in-charge of the Brook¬
lyn division of the bank, succeed¬
ing Ansel P. Verity, Vice-Presi¬
dent; who will retire on Feb. 1
but will remain with the bank as
Chairman of the Brooklyn Com¬
mittee.

Mr.

banking
ics
a

Ahern " began

career with

Bank

his

the Mechan¬

of

Brooklyn in 1905 as
messenger,
He became associ¬

ated with the First National Bank

of

Brooklyn in 1908, and in 1928
with, the Bank of the Manhattan

Company through
been

Assistant

merger.

He has

Vice-President

in

celebrated the 25 th
anniversary of his association with
Bankers

with

service

Co.

Trust

the

During
bank, he

and

nized

a

recog¬

in the field of
credit.
He
had
charge of the
banking business Of Bankers Trust
Co.

in

the

1919,
Credit
Five

West.

Department

made

was

Middle

an

in

and

1928

Assistant Treasurer.

later he

years

became

As¬

sistant Vice-President and in 1939

charge of the Borough Hall office,

was

Mr.

Robert M. Brandin, is 3rd
Secretary,
American
Embassy,
Madrid, Spain, and another son,
Donald N. Brandin, 2nd Lieut.
Field Artillery, is ,now serving
with the Army in Europe.

Ahern is

former Treasurer

a

of

the New ,York State Bankers
Association, a former Chairman of
Group VII, New York State Bank¬
ers
Association, and is active in
the

American

Institute

of

Bank-'

ing

and local charities both
Brooklyn and Long Island.

elected

A

son,

in

E. Chester

The

Arthur S.

Vice-President.

a

Public

Gersten, President of
National

Bank

and

Kieeman,

President of Trust Co. of New
York, announced
of New on Jan. 28 the
appointment of
York, in presenting his report at Lieut. Col.
Gordon. L. Chapline,
the annual meeting on Jan.,;
16, A. U. S., as Assistant Vice-Presi¬

the

Colonial

Trust

Co.

stated that "our institution's total
resources

$53,176,000

deposits,
U.

Dec.

on

$65,261,000,

31,

1945,

were

contrasted

as

with

Dec. 31,

on

excluding

1944;
those of

our

the

S.

Government, which were
substantially the same :on the
two dates, increased
approximate¬
ly

27%

plus

*

and

during

1945. Our
undivided
profits

sur¬

in¬

creased

during the year from
$620,000 to $1,009,000; thus, with
our capital of
$1,000,000 and $500,000

by

capital debentures purchased
interests identified with the

bank's management, our total
cap¬
ital funds on Dec.

31, 1945,

$2,509,000,

as

620,000

were

Dec. 31, 1944.

on

contrasted with $1,-

"Our

special
added, such as
sion

and

and

two

our

ments,

have

Public

activities.

Lieut.

Col.

Chapline is a graduate of U. S.
Military Academy, West Point,

N. Y. He has had extensive
experi¬
ence in the finance and commer¬

cial

paper

Department/

established, our
Travel Depart¬

our

assumed

increasing




.meeting

National

business, having been

J.,

Land

Title

Bank

$627,198,

recently

which

completed

covered

between

Africa.

Air, Inc.
a

survey

TWA's-ATC

air

Europe and North

as

a

Trust

Vice-President

of

the

board

of

elected at

the annual

stockholders

Jan.

on

meeting of
21.

organization

subsequent

At

the
changes

D.

Treasurers

Assistant

named

were

Vice-Presidents;
Branch
Man¬
agers Rodney L< Jack, Lewis H.

Keiffer,'

Louis

William

ings of U. S. Treasury obligations
by $142,236,392, constituting 97%
of

investment portfolio.

our

The

and

-

months, ; but based on;

seven

the first call dates
that
was

of the bonds

callable, the average life
four years and six months."
are

All directors

re-elected.

were

7

declared

$5

Lloyd, Emanuel, M.
and
Gimbel
Steinberg

Trust

Gordon

Investment

Offi¬

Lindblom

were

N.

ard E. Foehl and Robert Sherman
named Assistant

Joseph Smith
tant Manager

Treasurers;
named Assis¬

was

of

$4

the

Customer

Mercantile-Commerce

and

Trust

Mo.,

announced

Mr. Cravens is with the

F. «Deiss

Thorn

: was

made

Edward
Assistant

Officer

Investment

Trust

made

was

Officer;

and

commer¬

cial

bankingdepartment of the
bank and is regarded as an au¬

the A. B, A.

Trust

on

Presidents of the bank, as mem¬
bers of the board of directors.

liam M. Gonzalez and Maxwell F.

named Trust Of¬

Bank

St. Louis,
Jan. 18 the

election of Kenton R. Cravens and
William A. McDonnell, both Vice*

tant

ficers: John W.

par

Company,

well

Assistant

$100

Jan. 9.

on

W, L. Hemingway, President of

Officers John W. Clegg. Jr., Wil¬
were

the

on

the

Section Department and Edward
J.- Cade
was
made
Assistant
Branch IVtanager; Assistant Trust

MacNally

extra dividend

an

share

a

holders of record

named. Assistant Vice-Pres¬

Assistant

share and

a

of

quarterly dividend of

a

Klingsberg, stock, payable Jan. 15, 1946, to

M.

J.

Qliner

were

as

hold¬

Harry I. Lauer,
Directors. of* Northern
Trust
Litzenberg, arid Charles Company, of
Chicago, 111., have

Miller

cer

our

Fulmer,

Charles L.
H.

transfers,

have increased

average
maturity of the U. S.
Government securities we owned
of *>n Dec. 31, -1945,. was „six
years

Lloyd R,
Bechtel, J. Ross Burbouse, Rob¬
ert

"We

the

board,
a,
number /
in the assignment
of
duties, m
the company's exec¬
utive personnel were announced.
These are as follows: '

JoT

Assistant

making these

indicated.

meeting

thority

on- consumer
credit, as
having held many impor¬

as

in

positions

the

field

with

Mr. McDonnell be¬

associated with the Mercan¬

came

tile-Commerce

in

1944,

having

formerly

been Executive VicePresident of the Commercial Na?
tional Bank in: Little Rock, Ark.
At

cer.

the divisions, including
general
operations,. banks and bankers,
and «avirigsi s He has been active

The

board

American

directors

of

Security

and

of

Trust

on

Jan. 15 the election

Daniel
W.. Bell,
formerly
Undersecretary of Treasury of the
United States, as President;* Cor¬
coran Thorn, formbr; President, as
Chairman of the board.
of

Mercantile-Commerce,
supervision

Mr.

McDonnelf has

in

the

of

affairs

over

American

the

The

same

following changes and
additions to the bank's personnel
the

week

announced:

were

J.

Tim

-

Gallivan

Vice-President.

elected

was

his
the University:
of Illinois in 1925, Gallivan spent
Total deposits of The Cleveland a year as Secretary of the Paris,
Trust
Company
increased
by 111., Chamber of Commerce.
In
over $147,000,000 to reach an all1926, he entered the field of con¬
time high of $1,052,732,926, it was

reported

from

profits

of assets and

sale

recoveries from loans and invest¬

■

$75,878,000, or 16.75%,
Holdings of Government securi¬
increased

from

last

the

This compares

$26.27 per share.
With, $1,621,014,

equal to $11.74
year to $307,- per share for. the year 1944.
"During the year we trans¬
$230,728,500 of

As evidence of

ferred

valuation

to

reserves

$2,-

posits, the report notes that The
Pennsylvania Company's Govern¬

reducing the combined
earnings to $6,515,674, equal to
$47.21 per: share, applied as fol¬

ment

lows:

were

in bank de¬

holdings *at the end of 1942
$96,574,708, or less than one-

third

of

Since

the

nancing

its":

present

holdings.

beginning of

in
for

1942,
;

its

the

own

than

$1

securities.

billion

fi¬

war

bank

pur¬

account

distributed to its customers
rens

the

Pennsylivania
Company ; for Insurances on: Lives
and Granting Annuities were re¬

,

chased

.

The election of Charles D. Beh-

after

of

The

undivided pro f i t s accounts ments, .previously charged off or
amounted to $2,721,009, or $2.72 a written down, including f income
share, after the payment of divi¬ allocable to. prior years and other
dends of $1,600,000, or $1.60 per income adjustments, after provi¬
share.
During the past year the sion^for
bank's y total
deposits increased amounted to $3,625,283, equal to

1944 period.

He

and

of $3.05 in the previous
year. The
net increase in both reserves and

rapid expansion

Continental and Western

of

graduation

Following

from

credits and has since been

sumer

associated with

spent in the

where he
LieutenantBefore joining Mer¬
Navy,

States

United

of

rank

the

held

it, except for 39

which he

months,

Commander.

or

the

Lines, Inc., and Trans-

members

7.25%; over the 1945," the report states, "current cantile-Commerce, Mr. Gallivan
from operations after represented the Commercial Cred¬
gross
income of $8,651,506 re¬ earnings
interest
On
capital it Company in various parts of
ported the previous year.; The deducting
net. operating income of the bank, notes,
depreciation on - banking the country.
John J. Fox, Assistant Viceafter taxes, and excluding securi¬ bouses and after provision for
ties profits and recoveries, was Federal income, taxes amounted President, who has been with the
$3,323,929, an increase of $276,729, to $4,893,144, equal to $35.46 per bank since 1933 in various capaci¬
This compares with $4,- ties, was elected a Vice-President; :
or 9.08 %,
The operating earnings share.
J.
Chapman, Assistsmt
per share of capital stock were 532,815, equal to $32.84 per share William
$3.32 as contrasted with earnings for, the year 1944. Non-recurring Cashier, was promoted to Assist
of

the

Air

All

directors

by
I. F. Frieberger,
annual report of The Pennsyl¬ Chairman,
and
George
Gund,
vania Company for Insurances on President,
at
the 51st annual
Lives and Granting Annuities, of meeting, of the bank's stockhold¬
"For the year
Philadelphia. This is an increase ers on Jan. 16.

$.

the U.

by 1,162 accounts.

Company, of Washington, D. C., Bankers Association.

Gross operating income of $9,278,705 for the fiscal year ending
last November 30, 1945, was' an¬
nounced on Jan. 21 in the 133rd

Army administering the contract¬
ual
relationshipsbetween
the
Army Air Forces and Mid-Conti¬
nent

was

of

980,000

in

Terry

Philadelphia, Pa.,
has announced the appointment
of Raymond L. Hayman as Cor¬
porate Trust Officer and Harry K.
Loper as Assistant Secretary.
Company

ties

was

-

announced

four

he

of

elected Assistant Cashier.

identified with companies
special¬
years

share in June, 1945,

per

$3.505 in December, 1945. The

balance ofy$718,614 added to un¬
participating accounts increased divided
profits, increasing this
1,431 from 1,274.
The report account
to„$3,315,637, making, the,
states that the : Common Trust
combined-' surplus and undivided
Fund for Legal Investments, es¬
profits $15,515,637.
tablished in 1944, now aggregates
"In other words, capital funds'
$8,052,384 and is participated in have increased
$37.81 per share,

Rutherford,

Bank,
William
J.

izing in these fields. For the past

route

departments," he
Foreign Divi¬

He will be identified, with
National's i out-of-town

business

our

Trust

newly

Clearance and

dent.

N.

a

Seven

after joining the bank in
he became
head
of
the

years

recent

the
board of directors of the Ruthier*

was

authority

himself,

was

At

ford

dends, $3
and

Frederick C. Fiechter was named
Assistant. Corporate Trust Offi¬

his

active in the Robert Morris Asso¬
ciates

tary."

the pension
account, $897,000 %
paid to stockholders in two divi¬

to

made Assistant Treasurers; Rich¬

which this information is learned,
also says:

1946

to

of

Buffalo Savings Bank of Buffalo,
N. Y., was announced on Jan. 15.
The Buffalo "Evening News," from

of

Treasurer

as

.

been President.

number

idents; Assistant Investment Offi¬
cer
William
P.
Davis
III
and

changes

ings

the

the

Eisenhardt

Institution of New. York; Frank J. Miller, who has been
Trust and for three years he was Thurman Lee, President; Andrew
Secretary,' has been elected ^As¬
with the Paris office.
Going into Mills; Jr., Chairman of the Board; sistant Vice-President, and Charles
active service in February of 1942, M. Kenneth Frost, Executive Vice-? N,
Weig, who has been Assistant
as a Lieutenant in the Naval Re¬
President; Gustave Bottner, Jr.; Treasurer, has been elected Audi¬
serve, Mr. Murray was a Lieuten¬ Treasurer and Comptroller.
tor, a new position.
Alva W.
Mr. Mills, who becomes Chair¬ Maischoss and
ant Commander at the time of his
Floyd P. Jankowski
man of the board, had previously
release.
have been elected Assistant Treas¬
Foreign

and

year

were

&

Hoffmann; William N.
Westerlund, President of the Ma¬
rine Transport Lines, Inc., and

At

Thursday, January 31;

16 by

James R. McLaren, Jiigh point during the past fiscal
President of the bank.
Mr. Behyear.
The Discretionary Common
rens is prominent in Brooklyn real
Trust Fund increased to
$27,estate circles.
'*
945,483 from $18,792,455 the pre¬
on

or

more

of ^.Government
1

;

y

.

.

Kings County Savings Bank of
Gross earnings of the Trust De¬
Brooklyn, N. Y., was announced partment again? reached a new

002,753;

'

*

$3,000,000 added to surplus, in¬
creasing it to $12,200,000; $1,500,000 added to the reserve, for re¬
tirement of capital notes, increas¬
ing it to $5,000,000. If this fund
were
now applied,
capital notes
would be reduced from $11,000,000

would
aaa

and & surplus
be increased from $12,200,-

to

tM

$6,000,000

n

onn

nAA*

CdHA AAA

orlrloH

tant

R.

Vice-President, and William
was appointed Assis-:
Cashier.
William W. Hib-

Mclver

tant
bard

Statistician•Ed¬
Bosse, who has been onj
appointed

was

of the bond department and
H

win

leave as a Lieutenant in the U. S.

Navy;

was

■

appointed

Trust Officer.,

Assistant
;

~

•

The Louisville Trust

Company;
has retired
$300,000 of its preferred stock, last
of an original issue of $1,000,000,
held by the Reconstruction Fi¬
nance Corporation, Earl R. Muir,
President, announced on Jan. 22.
.

of

Louisville,

The Louisville
of Jan. 23
:

Ky.,

"Courier Journal"

reporting this added:

the

"Simultaneously,

ment added

account,

surplus
close

of

manage¬

$500,000 to the bank
so

business

that

the

at

yesterday

cap- ;

ital funds of the institution aggre- :

This

gated :$3,425,000.
cludes

common

total

in¬

stock, $1,000,000;
™

n-scfo

ftddV'

*

.Volume

163 -Number

4460

I

•

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Moody's Bond Prices And Bond
Moody's computed bond prices
given in the following table.

and

Yield Averages

bond

yield

averages

are

U. S.

Daily
Averages.
Jan.

Govt.

,

££

Corporate by Ratings*

rate*

Aaa

■

126.171,

119.00

A

"Aa

Corporate by Groups*

•

R. R.

.Baa

P. U.

Indus

.

123.12

28—_____

121.25 > *118.80

126.23

119.00

123.12

121.25

119.00

126.28. 119.00

.123.12

121.25

119.00

.113.31

126.28

119.00

123.12

121.25.

119.00

113.31

24

123.28

119.00

122.92

121.25

118.80

113,12

115.63

119.20

23__—,

126.25

118.80'

122.71

121.25

118.80

113.12

115.63 '

119.20.

122:09

22

126.20

118.80

122.71

121.04

118.80

113.12

115.43

119.00

-121.88

112.75

121.88

..

—

21

__i

126.20

118.60

122.71

120.84

)

:

,

.

126.17

118.60

122.50

121.04.

118.60

126.06

118.60

122.50

120.84

,

118.60

126.05

118.60

122.50

121.04

118.60

126.17

1*13.50

16

-115.82

•119.41-

113.31:

118.60

19—1

18___
17—

;
*

115.82

119.41

115.63*

119.41

i

14_:

122.09

:'122.29
-122.09

•

.119.41 .122.09

115.63

122.09

115.24

119.00

112.93

115.24

119.00

121.88

112.93

115.24

118.80

115.24

118.80

121.88

115.24

118.80

121.67

115.24

118.60

-121.67

118.60

122.29

120.84

118.60

112.75

126.24

118.40

122.29

120.63

118.40

112.75

118.40

122.29

120.63

,'j

118.40

112.75

118.60

126.18

118.20

122.09

120.63

118.20

112.56

115.04

118.40

118.20

122.09

120.63

118.20

112.56

-115.04

118.40

118.20

121.88

120.22

118.20

112.56

114.85

118.40

118.20

112.56

114.85

112.56

114.85

118.20 '• 121.04

114.85

118.20 ,120.84

ad-

yanced; in the preceding week 7 declined and 7 advanced; in die
fcecond preceding week 7 declined and 9 advanced.
:..-.vv

118.20

121.88

120.22

118.00

121.67

120.22

125.30

118.00

121.671 120.22

125.22

117.80

„

4—J..'

121.46

120.02

117.60

112.37

121.67

119.82

117.60

112.37

114.66

121.67

119.82

117.40

112.19

114.46

117.60
121.46 f 119.82
Exchange Closed
i

117:40

112.19

114.46

125.18 .117.80
117.80

3-—125.03

2-———;.. 124.97

..

1

Dec. 28,

Stock

1945

120.63

117.80

121.25

119.82

117.40

112.00

114.27

117.60

119.41

117.20

131.44

114.08

117.20

124.17

117.00

120.84

119.41

117.20

111.25

113.89

117.20

Total Index

116.80
116.80

120.63,

119:41

117.00

110.88

113.50

117.00

116.80

123.44

26

117.00

110.70 1

113.31

117.00

117.00

110,70

113.50

116.80

120.84

143.4

146.6

V 144.9

,163.1

116.41

1946

112.93

115.63

112.93

115.43

115.43

120.63

118.80

115.43

107.44

112.19

114.85

120.84

118.40

115.04

107.09

112.19

114.27

119.20

114.85-

121.04

118.40

114.85

106.04

111.25

114.27

120.02

118.60

114.46

106.04

110.52

114.08

119.41

118.00

113.70

105.17

109.24

113.89

123.12

121.25

118.80

113.50

115.82

119.41

122.29

117.40

117.80

124.97

117.60

121.46

119.82

112.56

119.41

116.02

112.19

114.46

1945—

124.84

117.60

121.25

119.82

117.40

112.00

il4.46

117.60

113.50

118.80

117.80

113.31

104.48

108.52

113.70

113.89

119.41

118.00' 113.50

105.17 * 109.24

113.89

•

*

:Jan.

119.47

111.07

118.20

116.22

111.25

100.16

' 104.14

113.31

116.41

(Bas?d on Individual Closing Prices)
1946—

U. S.

Daily
Averages

Govt.

Avge. ,v^
:
CorpoCorporate by Ratin;

Bonds

rate*

29—

1.32

28—

Aaa

2.70

Aa

ports,

1926-1928 base
■

110.2

110.2

106.4

160.4

158.4

154.1

;vi27.0v

127.0

127.5

125.4

118.2

118.2

118.2

119.8

119.9

105.2

105.2

105.2

104.8

141.8

142.1

142.3

2.50

2.59

2.71

2.70

1,31

2.70
2.70

2.50

*2.70

2.51

-2.59

2.52

*2.59

2.71

2.52

2.60

2.71

1.31V

—

2.50
...

2.71

•>'.1.32

21

2.86

2.98

,

L

.......

Jan.

were:

26,; 1946, 110.5;' Jan. 19, 1946,

140.1

110.7,

and

;

i

ij,

2.71V;

1.32

2.72

2.99

2.86

2.70

2.99

2.87

2.68

2.55

2.70

2.99

2.87

2.68

2.55

2.52

2.71

2.61

2.68

2.87 <

3.00

'Jr

3.00

2.72

'i1

3.02

V

2.55

Central IndustriaL...^.^..^.^.

2.56

West Central-

! 2.70

,2.56

.

.2.89

2.60

2.72

3.01

2.89

2.70

2.56

Rocky Mountain.

2.61

2.72

3.01

2.89

2.71

2.56

2.72

2.53

2.60

2.72

3.01

2.89

2.71

2.72

2.54

2.61

2.72

1.32

2.73

2.54

2.62

2.73

3.02

14

1.32'

2.73

2.54

2.62

2.73

3.02

12

3.02

2.71
2.72

2.57

2.89

2.72

2.74

2.55

2.62

2.74

3.03

2.90

1.32

2.74

2.55

2.62

2.74

3.03

2.90

1.33

2.74

2.56

2.64

2.74

3.03

2.91

1.35

2.74

2.56

2.64

2.74

3.03

2.91.

8

1.36

2.75

2.57

2.64

2.76

3.03

2.91

7—

1.38

2.75

2.57

2.64

2,77

3.03

1.38

2.76

2.58

1.38

2.76

2.57

2.66

3

1.40

2.77

2.57

2.66

2.65

2.77

2.73

2.59

2.73

2.59

2.74

.

2.60

2.92

2.75

2.92

2.76

2.93

3.04

2.61

2.74

2.76

2.61
2.61

"

1.40

2.77

.

2.58

2.78

3.05

.

2.61

^

2.66

2.78

3.05

2.93

Exchange Closed

J

2.62

2.76

2.94

x

2.77

28, 1945-

1.42

2.78

2.59

2.78

21

1.45

2.79

2.60

2.79

14.

1.46

2.80

2.61

2.79

7.

1.47

2.81

2.62

2.80

3.12

2.98'

2.80

2.64

Nov. 30.

1.49

2.81

2.62

2.80

3.13

2.99

2.80

2.64

23.

1.50

2.81

2.61

2.80

2.98

2.81

2.64

2.81

V 3.13

8.61

2.81

2.81

,li.53

2.82

2.62

2.82

2.62

2.83

'1.56

2.84

2.62

;

1.55

2.84

2.62

2.64

2.79

2.64

2.99

2.84

2.61

2.84

2.61

2.84

2.81

3.00

*

DATA FOR RECENT WEEKS

2.81 1

1945

out:
Oct.

13———'—

Oct.

20__

Oct.

27

Nov.

-

'4,028,286
3,934,394
3,914,738

1944

2.83

2.66

3.02

2.83

*

;

!

3.03
3.04

"5.20

5.21

June 29

2.84

2.61

2.86

3.05

2.85

2.61

2.84

3.25

3.03

2.85

2.68

2.86

2.61

2.86

3,27

3.01

2.87

3.23

x.-,

—

2.85

2.60

2.85

3.27

2.88

2.62

2.88

3.31

1.63

2.89

2.61'

2.90

3.33

Mar. 31-

1.66

2.91

2.60

2.91

3.39

3.10

Feb.

23

1.69

2.92

2.65

2.93

3.39

3.14

Jan.

26

1.77

2.96

2.68

2.97

3.44

3.21

1.40
1.31

2.77

2.58

2.78

3.05

2.93

2.70

2.50

2.70

2.98

2.87

1.80

2.98

2.71

2.99

3.48

3.25

1.41

2.77

2.59

2.78

3.06

2.98

3.44

19461946

3.01

,2.69

2.94

2.69

2.94
v

2.95

Nov.

10L2—
17——

4,354,939

—

2.76

of

1,793,584
1,818,169
1,718,002

the

—10.6

4,560,158

1,518,922

1,806,225

9.7

1,840,863

.4,154,061

4,563,079

4,566,905
4,612,994

1,563,384

Dec.. 15-

1,554,473

1,860,021

Dec..22———w-i---.

4,239,376

4,616,975 i

1,414,710

1,637,683

3,758,942

4,225,614

—11.0

4,295,010
4,337,237

1,619,265

1,542,000

1946

1945

under 1945

3,865,362

.4,427,281-

29,

29,

2.74

1945-

1

2.93

2.77

; 2.62

3.21

2.96,

2.72

1944_

'These prices are computed from
average yields on the basis of one '^ypicar bond
coupon, maturing in 25 years) and do not
purport to show either the average
level or the average movement of actual
price quotations.
They merely serve to
Illustrate in a more comprehensive
way the relative levels and the relative movement
of yield averages, the latter
being the true picture of the bond market.

(3 A %

.

NOTE—. The
fssue

of

the

—

9.0

~

Jad. 12^-^—4,163,206

—

8.2

4,588,214'
4,576,713

Feb,

—

*4,145,116
J4,040,000

v

/ '

1929

1932

1944

1,733,810

—12.7

4,614.334

Jon. 19

r

'Revised.

4,567,959

1,602,482

9.8

4,539,083
4,531,662
4,523,763
4,524,134

1,598,201

1,736,721

1,588,967

1,717,315

1,588,853

1,728,208

1,578,817

1,726,161

—

9.7

—

—11.7

.

■•,

4,538,552

.

^Preliminary.

the

Davis

present contract," Dr;
said. "The increased cost

materials and labor has made

construction

total

cost

con¬

siderably in excess of the amount ■
of the Foundation's gift:
We ex- /

pect these facilities to be provided I>
later

as

funds become

additional

available," he continued. "In the
meantime, the building will make
almost 40 % more space available :
exercise thari was originally

for

contemplated. This will be a dis¬
tinct advantage during the period
that lies immediately ahead when
enrollment
is
expected
to
be
higher than will be normal later
on."

Senate to

John C.

investigate Demobilization—

Hegeman, head of the

Hegeman Harris Company, is an
alumnus of Stevens, class of 1905.

President Defends Slowdown

2.55

2 Years Ago

Jan.

4,538,012

% Change

—

'

1,531,584

4,403,342

Jan, 26—i-j1—

^

1,798,164

—12.1

<

shower ;

*--10.2

4,524,257

.

heating,

1,815,749

■.

5_

and

1,520,730

4,368,519

Week Ended—

rooms

1.525.410

3,841,350
Dec.
1
4,042,915
Dec. •••8--——" | 4,096,954

Jan.

,

radiation

.

4,413,863

9.7

1,475,268
1,510,337

29——

with

--10.5

—

\
I

4.482,665
4,513,299

Dec.

of locker

baths

1,824,160

—10.5

,

was

1,533,028

<

—

building

4,415,405
4.452,592

9.9

—

4,450,047

Nov^. 24--#-,—W—-

the

these facilities have been omitted

4,396,595

2.62
.

2.97

-

list

used

In

"Chronicle"

on

compiling the averages
page

was

given

in

the

Nov.

22,* 1945

2508.

National Fertilizer Association
Price Index Declines

His

company' built

two

dormi¬

Commodity

Moderately

A month ago the index stood




„

protests of troops overseas who see their hopes dashed
of early return home by the slowdown in demobilization procedure

tories, Palmer Hall and Jacobus
and, two of the towing

The

mass

Jan. 10 of

special Senate Military sub¬
committee td 'investigate the whote demobilization situation, the Asso¬
ciated Press reported from Washington, adding that Senator Edwin
C. Johnson (D.-Col.), was named Chairman of the Committee. Sena¬
tors

Briggs

(D.-Mo.)

on

comb f (R.-W.f Va.) are^ the other
members of-the; group.
Saying

that

the

soldiers'

demonstrations

"distressing and
humiliating
to
all
Americans,"
Senator
Johnson
told
reporters

overseas

were

at its

highest

ized and clarified and that "Con¬
gress must

determine the military

policy of this country,"
He also
asserted, according to the Asso¬
ciated

ment

Press, that the War Depart¬
Was;

pledges"
made, to

repudiating

about

a

Hall, that were completed in 1937,

are

for

used

tanks that
work

research

Stevens.

.

.

at
.

.

?

and Rever-^

that the situation would be stabil¬

The weekly wholesale
commodity price index compiled by The
National Fertilizer Association and made
public on Jan- 28, declined
moderately in the week ended Jan. 26, 1946 to 141.8, from 142.1 in

the preceding week,

'

:

from

3,948,024

2.72

2.96

-

of

Trustee

1,798,633

'

2.68

alumnus- and

an

■

1,806,403

: 3,984,608

2.68

-

'

•

of I

'Foundation;

1,507,503
1,528,145

9.6

—

4,345,352 I
4,358,293

1929

2.69

2.91'

3.05

:

house. Mr. Mott, President-of the Founda'tion, is a Di- ?
rector and former Vice President \
of'General Motors Corp., a' pio* :
neeF in the automobile industry,

and

1932

2.68

2.88
•

,3.05
:

!Mott

Stewart;

culminated in formation

1945
1945

2.66

1 Year Ago

Jan.

April, and the building will be
ready for use Sept. 1. The Charles

4,341,754
4.382,268

7.9

4,354,575

3,899,293

,

1943

'

1.60

—

It is expected that ground for the
house
will; be broken in

field

"Although

2.70

*

>.■1.64

Low

2.65

2.85

2.83

27_

High

2.65
•

1.64

May 25

Lew

2.66

2.84

1.63

Aug. 31
July 27

High

r

-1.65

Sept. 28_

Apr.

on the college
camp-;r
has been awarded to Hegeman ;
Haris
Co.,- Inc., of New- York.*

us

planned for the complete equip-,
ping^ of an athletic headquarters I

(Thousands of Kilowatt-Hours)
under 1944

4,375,079 (

3.937,420

J

Nov.

2.65

3.01

' 3.20

on l Jan.
16, ■
.the contract for the construe- ;

Stevens.

|

% Change.

2.65

3.00

3.19
•

!

Field House"

"v J9.7

*11.7

———

Week Ended—

'

3.16

2.84

1.59

3.15

:

2.84

'1.57

5_—

2.79

2.96

3.14

2.84

19

"V*v-

2.95

v,

'

tion of "The Charles Stewart Mott

iind

'

11

V

3.09

3.10

2.82

1.55
26

2.62

"
,

r

the field

2.64

1.52

3.06

■

v

nology, 'announced
that

'

2.58

2.73

>

yet home, but*
already back at*

firesides.

Dr. Harvey N. Davis, President
Stevens Institute of Tech¬

■

^Revised.; lincrease.

'Preliminary.

2.58

2.73
.

2.91

3.04

2.77
,

■. • •

10.5

12.4

—

2.57

1.32

4—IIIII

•

—^—-—-

Total United States

2.57

2.89

10

many are

own

2.56

,

2.89
mi

11

f

Week Ended

.

14.5

—

Pacific Coast

15_

that.,

of the

-

4.6

Southern States-,—.—

2.53

2.53

1.33

not

Flint, Mich., made a .grant" of t
$110,000 for the construction of >'

2.8

2.72

.

•

.

iflddle Atlantio^v—

2.55

2.70

2.69

|2.88v

not

Construction Contract

week

J^i9

Hew RWglMlH

2.72

,

v,

Major GieogrsphicAl Divisloas-?^

{

,2.69

2.87

3.00

is

soldiers, sailors and

Stevens Inst. Awards

S

2.54

1.32

Stock

same

•

1.32

1

l|p||§
"

2.70

2.59
'2.59

;

17

2

11.7% below that of the

PERCENTAGE DECREASE UNDER SAME WEEK LAST YEAR

2.55

^""12.59

2.50

16

9

was
.

1.33

—_

18

26, 1946

in 1945,

;; Indus.

2.(38

so

their

-

1.31

22

P- U.

wonder

119.9

that

Industry of the United States for the week ended - Jan. 26,
approximately 4,040,000,000 kwh., which compares with
4,576,713,000 kwh. in the corresponding week a year ago,, and 4,145,.116,000 kwh. in the week ended Jan. 19, 1946. The output for the

Corporate by Groups*
R. R.

once

j The

carry
the
Marines tothey reach our1^

118.3

119.8

•

was

week ended Jan.

Baa

1.31

24—

Oct.

their homes

(power

■ r..

A

1.32
-

25.——

19

130.4

110.2

„„•;

combihedli--i

27," 1945» 109.1.

11946,

MOODY'S BOND YIELD AVERAGES

23

160.2

mated

1944-

26—

166.4

129.0

The Edison Electric Institute, in its current weekly report, esti¬
that, the production of electricity ,by the electric light and

12 Years Ago

29,

All groups

-

Indexes 'on:

118.60

120.63

1 Year Aeo

1945-

161.7
•129.4

Electric Output for Week Ended Jan. 26,1946
11 J% Below That for Same Week a Year Ago

118.20

120.81

100.5-

120.63

120.55

29,

161.2

160.4

•.

...

Fertilizers.—..—.......
machinery- V
;.r.

118:60

119.00

port! sufficient : to
soldiers, sailors, and

203.5

119.41

113.89

before discharge and in rail trans¬

167.3

■;

stagger¬

are

consider what they

you

ships, in extensive staffs!
required to carry out processing

233.2
<

119.20

114.66

108.52

1945—

High

Metals..

Farm

119.20

115.24

116.22

numbers

in

mean

'

119".4l

122.38

164.9

119.00

108.16

120.88

1946

108.16

116.02

126.28

26

115.82

119.20

121.92

—

119.20

121.04

122.01

■

119.00

120.84

116.02

122.29
mitt"

120.84

115.82

161.8
;

These

ing when

are

119.82

116.02

a

From the

Corps, which totaled
more than 183,000
The Coast
Guard, with 180,000 men, has de¬
mobilized over 74,000.

our

119.82

122.39

million and

Marine

of

120.02

116.80

116.02

-

V

nearly 486,000,

Marines

Chemicals and drugsi^^^^.^u,;,
Fertilizer materials...

112.93

the

some

Building materials—"

113.12

a

quarter to civilian life.

133.4

120.02

112.19

returned close to

155.5

120.22

109.60

has

3,500,000, the Navy has already

133.5

116.80

110.15

:

of

159.3 V

116.80

108.88

»

159.0

113.12

116.22

pursued % an

Navy

133.5

113.31

116.41

The

•.Textiles...—v.: 159.8

110.34

115.82

169.6

•

110.52

119.20

enormous.

equally vigorous policy in speed¬
ing the separation of its men and
women.'
Out of a peak strength

Miscellaneous commodities.^.^—133.5

•

been

released well
over half the 8,300,000 in service
when the European fighting stop¬
ped. -More than 4,750,000 men and
women have
passed through the
separation centers.

Livestock—157.8
,Fuel8i.^.«..—•—...
129.1

116.61

118.80

232.9

-.

116.80

120.63

has

task

The

10.8

.

within the

The Army has now

17.3

119.41

120.84

172.9

169.7

119.41

116.22

163.1

170.5

237.8

......

Grains

163.1'

168.3

119.41

122.93

23—

Dec

144.1

146.6

120.63

122.09

Mar. 31

Jan.

142.5

120.63

116.02

ly45

Cottonseed Oil_.

120.22

:

1945

146.6

Cotton.

120.22

119.41

Ago
Jan. 27,

1946

Farm Products.

23.0

demobilization

the

far accomplished

services, Mr. Truman said:

Year

Dec. 29,

v;-141.3 •

116.61

122.92

May 25—
Apr. 27

H)gh

119.41

120.84

Month

VAgo /•;:

Jan. 19,
1946

26,

Fats and Oils—.

116.61

122.19

June 29

Jan.

,</
Foods

123.28
„

Sept. 28
Aug. 31,
July 27—

Jan.

116.80

120.63

; Jan.

:

•

-123.05

9

2

Feb.

•

:v:V">VT

.

25.3'

120.22

23„u—123.70

Latest Preceding
Week

JrV'KiV
!

INDEX

Association

Week

Group

100.22

124,06
123.81

COMMODITY' PRICE

The National Fertilizer
1935-1939=100*

Sach Group-;
Bears to th»

120.22

16.:—

Jan.

"

120.63

121.04

WHOLESALE

Compiled by

120.84

117.40

—

Low

120.84

117.20

:

Low

118.00

117.80

>11?.8<T120,84

124.67

„

...—

NOV. 30

Oct.

114.66

124.28

21

'

117.60

WEEKLY

-

.125.80

5

115.24

of

Speaking
thus

have been discharged.

118.40 1121.25

117.80

117.60? 112.56

,

,

During the week 6 price series in the index declined and 5

j

121.25

9—

.

was up fractionally with the
malting barley prices a little more than offsetting the decline
quotations, v The livestock index dropped sharply with egg
prices declining more than seasonally, cattle prices declining, but
yrith quotations for calves and live'poultry advancing slightly.
The
food group declined for the sixth consecutive week
taking the index
pack to the same level of Oct.- 6. The fuel index declined resulting
from lower gasoline quotations; ' The textile
group advanced someWhat; All other groups of the index remained unchanged.

121.46

126.00

7—

:

one

advance and reached

in rye

121.46

126.11

8——125.55

;

subgroup? advanced and
marked

a

The grain index

121.67

12
11
10

.

The cotton index showed

v

all-time peak.

rise in

121.88

112.93

Two of its

-

-

126.24

15—___—

a year ago at 140.1,j all based on the 1935-1939 aver-*
The report went on to1 say:
;■
■vvv^v;v;v-v

•

r; Three of the composite groups of the index declined during the
latest week and one advanced.
The farm product group declined for
the fourth consecutive week and is now at the same level that it was

declined,

Average Yields)

26—1—
25—:—..

.

•/ '

100.

age as

a new

Corpo¬

Bonds

29

,

on

■

619

.

point,> 142.3, and

in the middle of October.

MOODY'S BOND- PRICES
(Based

1946—

.

.

"solemn

demobilization

Congress last September

by Gen. George C. Marshall, then
chief of staff.
President Truman

on

Jan. 8, ac¬

cording^ to the Associated Press,
came
to the Army's .support by
pointing out that the demobiliza¬
tion slowdown was attributable to
the "critical need for troops over¬

seas."

Presi¬
nation
share of

In his statement, the

dent

asserted

must

assume

that

its

"our

full

responsibility
for
keeping the
and destroying* the war
making potential of the hostile
nations that were bent on keeping
peace

the world in

a

state of warfare."

Moody's Daily
Commodity Index
Tuesday, : Jan. 22, 1946
Jan, 23————

—- ' 265.8
265.9
25—265.8
Saturday Jan. 26—,/.rr-.-266.0
Monday, Jan. 28—266.6
Tuesday, -Jan. 29
^
266.4

Wednesday,

Thursday,: Jan. 24^--^—-

Friday, Jan,

.

Two

weeks ago, Jan.

264.7
264.7
252.3

l5_—-j-——

Month ago, Dec. 29, 1945—.——
Year

ago,

1945

High,
Low,

1946
"

Jan. 29____—————r-

Dec.
Jan.

27——^.—
265.0
24—252.1

High, Jan. 28
-Low,

Jan.

2_-_'

—

—

:

266.6
264.7

:

THE COMMERCIAL; & FINANCIAL: CHRONICLE,

620

Thursday; January, 31; 1946-

"H'.Vff

Steel Production at

Unprecedented LowIncoming Business Is Still Heavy
long steel strike on re-

"Fearful of the devastating effects of a

but reluctant to take over the steel industry, the Admin¬
was again attempting to find some basis on which

con version^

istration this week

settlement could be

a

;

reached," states "The Iron Age," national metal-

working paper, in its issue of today (Jan. 31), which further adds:
"High Administration officials suspected of being the same ones who
entertained hopes of averting the
steel strike a few weeks ago, are ming
future quotas to enable
believed to be seriously seeking Cleaning up of carryover tonnage
which has been scheduled but not

price basis which would
United
States Steel

steel

a

produced.

the

allow

"Causing almost equal

accept the President's
compromise offer of 18 Vz cents, an

Corp.

to

hour.-

trical motors

''s

:

the steel strike to

as

and

concern

users

of elec¬

controls is

the

steel electrical equipment, tieup. Dis¬
industry leaders were to meet in ruption of already extended de¬
Washington this week to find a livery schedules foreshadows a
"Contrary to reports that

it

much

is

period in which users dependent
upon electrical components
may

of settling the steel strike,

means

likely that the

more

Administration asked Benjamin F.

President
of : United
Corp., to come to
Washington and again talk over
the steel price situation.
This
sudden trip by Mr. Fairless to the
Capitol where he conferred with
high governmental officials fol¬
lows fairly well the same pattern
of approach adopted by the Ad¬
ministration in its previous effort
do forestall the steel strike.

stitute

94%

of

for

the week

beginning Jan. 28,

increase of 0.8

an

point

or

the preceding week.
The operating rate for the week

from

beginning Jan. 28 is equivalent to
104,400 tons of steel ingots and
castings, compared to 89,700 tons
one week a£o, 1,476,300 tons one
month ago, and 1,625,200 tons one

become ? a

to

capacity of the

compared with 4.9% one week
ago, 80.6% one, month
ago and
88.7% one year ago.
This repre¬
16.4 %

voluntarily

the steel

industry will be 5.7% of capacity

sents

want

,

Jan. 28 announced that

on

ing rate of steel companies having

ing negotiations with the union, it
is expected that something better
than a promise of a price increase
will be demanded.
Despite the
steel firm's attitude that it did hot

18 Vz cents wage in¬
crease and a large increase in §teel
prices because of its possible in¬
flationary effect, a request by the
government to do so, supported by
a
big enough price increase do
compensate for past costs and a
new
wage increase would prob¬
ably be acceptable.
i
-;
; :
"Whether or not the Steel strike

party to

as¬

received indicated that the operat¬

Steel

"Before ,the United States

.

telegraphic reports which it had

makes any move towards resum¬

.

their

complete

*
V ;
*
The American Iron and Steel In¬

Steel

States

to

semblies'"

Fairless,

,

unable

ue

an

year ago.

"Steel" of

Cleveland, in its
of the iron and steel
kets, said in part as follows:

sum¬
mar¬

The company has

the

sult of.the steel

and have

flatly refused to

been able to

carry

on

further than its 15 cents an temporarily from stocks on hand.
hour offer.
Philip Murray having
"However; until the end of the
accepted
the
President's
com¬ strike consumption is expected to
promise offer and called a strike decline at an accelerated pace as
go any

to back it up is expected to hold
out for his wage demand and to

have ho

interest

whatsoever

inventories at the be¬

consumer

ginning of the strike did not aver¬
age more than 30 days supply at

in

what price deals are made between

most.

the government and the steel in*

that

Consideration
it

will

take

of

some

the

fact

time

for

mills to reSume full production
dustry.. '
"Up to the end of this week the after the strike's end is causing
country will have lost approxi¬ consumers to conserve stocks and
mately
2,900,000 tons of steel plan suspension of operations be¬
ingots since the strike began. fore their steel is gone.
„

.

,

Much of this cannot be made up
?

because

before

companies
high level

the

strike

most

be slow and

have turned

ers

of

.

p

i

come

-ter

v

.

made
emer¬

ence

upon

nerable.

lions,

come

from

the

priorities
strike.

strike

granted

before

i commercial educational

more

30-day supply; usually
less.:; Some foundries are
down, while others are producing
from stock but face closing in a
short time if iron production is
not resumed soon.
As resumption
of production by blast furnaces is
a
slow process full flow of iron
will require some time after the
a

strike is

is

age

some

and

over

expected

"

v

from

The
bill

a

placed recently, including 36,750
units for the French government,
divided among six builders.
The
Pennsylvania has distributed or¬
ders to; three "builders for 214

from

™Ync

"Whil4 inmdrv

'

mand

than

many

bill would

the musicians the

expected.
In addition to interest
as to the status of tonnage due or

the

possibly

period to crystallize advance proauction schedules. They are trim-

and

Loan

Principles"

of the

nationwide

he

entered

the

service

for

was

Legislation designed to restrain

the

American

Institute and

Loan

Savings

retail,

en

continued

route there has been

evidence

of

consumer

desire to get on mill books even
though ho definite promise can be
given.
Some leading mills have

publi¬

cations.

Musicians, AFL affiliate was
on Jan. 23 by the House

of

the past year we

have, distributed, at
blocks of securities which ranged in

many

amount from

$50,000 to $200,000.

approved

Commerce

Committee

In certain instances

by

a

vote of 14 to 5.

The intro¬

tion

by

duction of the bill on Jan. 16 by

source,

and

mittee, Clarence F. Lea, (Demo¬
crat) of California/ was noted in
our issue of Jan. 24, page 440. Mr.
Lea / stated that the legislation

issuing

they

who

dealers,

were

were

called to

in

our

atten¬

touch with their

informed on the status of the

company.

grew out

We

were

interested

are

from dealers and

of demands made upon
Petrillo: accord¬

in

receiving similar offerings,

others, of bonds and stocks which

suitable for retail distribution.

are

broadcasters by

ing to the Associated Press, Rep¬
resentative Lea said that he con¬
sidered

the

demands

the legitimate

within

not

rights of

any or¬

ganization, adding that a self-re¬
specting Government cannot af¬
The bill, ac¬
cording to its title is aimed to pro¬

BATTLES & COMPANY

ford to permit them.

hibit certain coersive practices

INC.

af¬
1528 WALNUT STREET

90 BROAD STREET

fecting radio broadcasting.
PHILADELPHIA

Associated Press Washington ac¬

NEW YORK 4

2

counts Jan. 23 said:

Experience and Ability
Distribution of
an

large blocks of securities for Estates or Individuals is

important part of our business. Experience as to the

best method to

lie used is essential.

Equally important is the Ability of a firm to dis¬

tribute

own

through its

through

our

Offerings
board.

organization. During 1945

on

the Exchanges

by Secondary Distributions off the

or

.

5,970

.

W

9,485

y3'K;

u

11,000

■

American Box Board

8,000

,

11,115

American Gas &, Elec.
/

Boston Edison

/:•

44

,;V

44

Kroger Grocery
Minn.

'■

-"-A, '

Boston Herald Traveler

;;

44

S

12,000
12,144
50,000

'

5,864

Comm. Pub. Service

44

;

;

Dewey & Almy Chem,

.

:

44

/¥/

44

El Paso National Gas

p.1',;;'

/First Nat. Bank of Erie

'

.

3,000

/
.

,

44

10,000

/Greyhound

Tampa Electric ''
Underwood Elliott Fisher

4,000

44

44

_

*4

5,100

:

;

Safeway Stores

8,400

-

.

;

.

Honeywell

N. E. Airlines

40,000

'

44

/ a

,

,

Walter Kidde

2,734 shares

Allied Kid

6,000, shares

distributed

23 offices, the following blocks of securities by Special

'

■

we

'

U. S. Smelt. & Ref.

;

Valley Mould & Iron

/Western Union "A"

Pawe, Webber, Jackson & Curtis
ESTABLISHED
Members New York Stock Exchonge

BOSTON 10
2i FEDERAL ST.

1879

and Other Principal Slocli and

NEW YORK 4
25 BROAD ST.~

Comtnoth ty Exchanges
CHICAGO

4

209 S. LA SALLE ST.

and

contributor

a

to financial and real estate

deny

right to strike,

D URING

in

director of education and'research:
for

Bill to Curb Petrillo
the powers of James C. Petrillo,
head of the American Federation

or-*

some years

HnseSroip Approves

trade interests

"Although
new
orders
are
slightly lower than during most of
period, incoming
(business is still heavy. Mills are
staking advantage of the strike

was

Assistant Vice-President-

July, 1942. He

the committee

at

the

that

and

co-operative banking business be¬
fore

(Am.Lab. N.

Rep. Marcantonio

.

pre-strike

misde¬

penalty of two years'

contended

the
Lt>

ganization of the savings and loan

imprisonment and $5,000 fine.

Y.)

Forces

retirement

w

lhe

.

a

was

Treasurer

infrac¬

Mr. Lea had proposed a

maximum

session

streamlined passenger cars",

an

to

felony

a

his

"Savings
and

Rep. Bulwinkle

by

(Dem., N. C.) changing
tion

a

Theobald is co-author of the text

offered by Rep. Lea was an

meanor.

was

the

change made in the

amendment

/

number of orders have been

as

He

shortly
given
Legion of Merit by General
of the Army H. H. Arnold. Mr.

a

originating outside the

only

Air

the

before

United States."

"Meanwhile, railroad car buy*
ing is proceeding at a good rate
and

for

station to refrain
broadcasting
any "radio

program

to continue,, for

time at best,

.

4—Forcing

with

years

Col. serving as executive officer
of the Office of Statistical Control

tural programs in which the
participants receive no money,

except expenses.

short¬

severe

a

>

three-and-a-half

Army Air Forces.

cul¬

or

the

_!ack of cast /crap dr0Dped sharply following
ljn<iries^m4. Soor shape walkout, there has been more destrike started.




a broadcaster to ;
refrain from broadcasting non-

much

5,000

a voluntary rationing,

with

when the

pZ 3—Coercing

■

the

Tight inventory condibefore

not

in

the

face

with

8,000

under such

pig iron makes it vul-

even

coupled

to

than

and

situation

5,825

j CPA is following a policy of issuing AAA ratings where necessary
foundry industry whose depend- having previously;
suspended ali
expected

present

limited

been

emergencies which cannot be met

,

The earliest ,mass casualty list

is

have

inventories

for

"Meanwhile, to provide steel

longer.
mu

given consideration and

gency maintenance and repair.

epercussions if it lasts four weeks

cr

are

in particular that effort be
to have steel available for

the steel strike goes into its
ihird week with far more serious

:

their

and to comply with the
request
the Civilian Production Ad¬

needs

propor-

nch in steel supplies will

been almost fantas¬

ministration for voluntary
cooper¬
ation in
seeing that only spot

no

;? Ions.', It is expected that the real
i

distributors

be afforded.
demands on ware¬

as can

Distributors in general have
responded conservatively to make
sure available
supplies were being
equitbaly divided among custom¬

lack of steel pro¬
duction because of inventories and
because of steel already on the
way to their plants. •' This week
the number of steel users affected
serious

many

tic.

unaffected by

reached

cases

some

houses have

strike most steel consumers Were

n: eans

help

In

mating and processing plants.

shipments

to steel

for such

"During the first week of the

/

foundries

having small stocks,

in absence of mill

The

slightly larger but had by

League Post

as¬

suspended fairly promptly, to pre¬
a quick start after the
strike; But most shops in a posi¬
tion to operate have done so and

total wages lost is: much greater
because of. shutdowns at steel fab-

was

Loan

,.

pare for

hourly employees in the steel pro¬
ducing companies, more than $30,000,000 in wages will have been

i

fabricators,

some

Theobald In New Savs.

1—- Compelling a radio station

r

suming post-strike shipments will

operating at as
as
possible.
On the
other. hand, including only the
were

lost by the end of this week.

"In fact,

would prohibit the

measure

Musicians' union from:

the Chairman of the House Com¬

"While steelmaking is at prob¬
ably the lowest percentage rate in

history of the industry as a re¬
strike, consump¬
tion
is
tapering
much
more
is settled quickly apparently rests moderately as most steel fabrica¬
tors have not yet been confronted
upon the attitude the government
takes with respect to steel prices. by labor stoppages of their own

■

The

I

.

Others simply file these orders. > • ! to "pay or agree to pay tribute"
"Pig iron production is at a low ;; for the privilege of producing
The new post of Vice-Presidentebb, most blast furnaces being for using records, transcriptions
Assistant Manager was taken over
banked ,ahd the few, still operating :•! or
reproductions, in broadcasts, f
by A. D. Theobald at the United
being unable to meet more than
%—Forcing a broadcaster to
States Savings and Loan League
a
small part of demand.
Under J employ more persons than it
headquarters in Chicago the first
regulations in force for some time {wants. f fern?
of the year upon his return from

Interstate

mary

.

asked, buyers to .take: back:.their
orders and reinstate them later
conditions
are
settled.

when

Volume

163

Number

4460

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE
'

try—»

Monthly Range of Prices

the

on

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
tables which follow show the

ings occurred

high and low prices, by months, for the

the New York Stock Exchange.

on

1945 of

year

bond and

every

The prices in all ca^s are based on actual sales.

>

<

stock in which

every

deal¬

any

-

,

COURSE OF PRICES OF RAILROAD AND MISCELLAN EOUS STOCKS AND BONDS FOR 1945

'> > > »'
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'••

January •;» February ;>

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36%

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113

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111

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57

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September
High

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High
Share —per Share;

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High

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High

:

$ per Share

56:-//

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100

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Ry
5%
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56

102%

45

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;

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7%

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•

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February
Low
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158

163

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Volume

163

Number-4460

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

NEW YORK STOCK RECORD
January
STOCKS

Low

Corp of America—.
1st preferred $4.75 series.-.:

,

T/o 2d preferred
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.

"

37J/e

$ per Share

38%

105 vi

...

Low

$ per Share

High

$ per Share

Celanese

February
Low
High

:

106 y2

127

——

37%

128

15%

preferred
Central Aguirre Associates...:.
—

Central

-

...

18 V2

Foundry Co

4%;

pfd—

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of

New

Jersey

109%

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de

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6%

;

—

preferred

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27%

28 %

11

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prior

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30

10%
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November

October

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High

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#

7

—

115

10%
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27%

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5

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.

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$ per Share

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107

19%

21

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47

51%

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..

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20

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52%'

44 %

■

105%

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$ per Share

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5%
6%

24%

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May

Low

$ per Share

45 V*
106%

133% 137

r

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17

19%

19%

20%

Central Hudson Gas & Elec
Corp
Central Illinois Light 4 % %

^Central

41%
105 %

128% 139%

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5%

43%

April '."i*
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f.

-

High

107%

106

# ;

March

:

80

22

17%

54%

58 V4

55%

57%

9%

11%

9%

10%
221/4

20

23%

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22 Va

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Chicago Great Western Ry Co
5%

preferred
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preferred

wi__

Chicago Mail Order Co

Corp

financial

19%

52%

52

54

58

15%

17%

23%

21%

27,#

25

26%

23%

27%

261/4

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25%

54%

50%

54

51

58%

54 Va

56%

17%
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17

18%

55%
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49

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31

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170

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170

94

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108

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45

36%

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49

54%

50

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common

108

62%

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100

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33

30%

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31%

101

104%

3%

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26

25%

107

27V4

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101

105%
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1

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30%

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30

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31%
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37

34

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33

38

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35%

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4%

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31%

30 Va

108
31

30%

33%

29%

35%

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33

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103%
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34%

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4%

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30%

3%

30

20

,27%-

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108%

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33

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107%

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29%

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30%

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103

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4%

30

32%

28%

32 Ve

29%

31%

29

13%

14%

13%

14%

12%

14

11%

6%-

5%

.

.

108

107

4% ;;

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34 Vb

37

36

37%

18%

23

18%

22%

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26

#

5%
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28 Va

121/4

11% # 12%'

124%

118

33%

34%

41 %

45%

46

48

41

45

38%

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39%

33%

37

38%

42

33%
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38%

50

42%

48%

101%

102%

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1%

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34% % 31%
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13%

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16%

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35%

32%

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451/4
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40%
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16%

191/4

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211/4

25%

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50

50

53%

50%

51

51%

52%

51

52 /;■;

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55

53V8

109%

115

110%

27%

37%

37%

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23%

21%

25

23%

25%

23%

281/4

28%

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29V4,

27%

29%

28%

29

32%

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20%

18%

21%

19%

30%
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21

34

20%

23

21.

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27%

26%

32

1131/4

30

34Va

25»/4

53%

110%

38%

39

21%

//

.

108%

106%

108%

107

107%

5%

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32%

12%

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;

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41/4-

34%

40

211/4

32%

4%

116%
25%
3%
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33%
34%
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49%

110

Va 113%

19 Vs
v

•

27%

28

53

46%

42

,4%-

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11%

33%
13%

23%

35%

22%

35

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5%:

4%

30
311/4
13 // / 11%
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100

41/2

44%

51%

-

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108

106%

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•

26

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:
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105%

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26%

29%

26%

8%

10%

9%

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27%

29% <

:

,

27%

29%

271/4

28%

110% 113 #

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112

113

111

28

28%

30%

29%

28

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26%
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26%

21%

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113%

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8%

9%

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112

9%

112

114

109%.

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9%

112

109

9%

10%
111

30%

27%

11%

91/2.

111 1/2

108

40%

41%
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43

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46%;:

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47%
108

11

12%

11%

13

10%

12%

10%

12

11

33%

33%^ 36%

35%

40%

37

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10

10%

10%

12%

11%

15%

14%

17%

107%

109%

47%

51%

49%

53

48 Va

52%

52%

58

10%

lova

12

30%

33%

31%

35%

9%
31%

series—50
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U

10%

12%

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11%

10 Vi

121/4

32>/4

33%

29%

32%

29%

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32 Va

37

32%

35%

32%

35Va

17%

20%

18

18%

21

48

50

47%

49%

48%

50

49%

21%
50%

49%

51

22%

54%

58 Va

53%

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21%

;

188

l
1

25

:

100

6
v.

;

3%

25%
108

60%

63%

186%

191

71/4

6%.

4%

4

301/B
110

53

51%

53

52%

55%

17%

52%

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18%
56%

60

33%

30

#

63%

61%

194 V2

60%
190

193'/B

195^

65

103V2
64%
193

104%

6%

6%

6%

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6%

8%

4

4%

4%

4%

4%

5 V;

29%

31%

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27%
107

31%

27%

31%

/: 108%

107 Ve

108%

30%
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104%

24

•
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*

$2 cum preferred

51

52%

51VB

52%

52%

19%

19

21

5

56%

56%

59

''

33 V*

33 VB

36%

60

105%

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188 %

67 y8

195

25%

25%

311/4

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35

37

39% "38

•

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j;

r

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i

8%

8

3%

4%

34%

30%

105%

104%

32%

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37%

30%

105% v'; ^

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.

44
28%

67%
185 V2

36%

28%

26

100%

•

64%

70%

64%

12

10%

9%

41/4

51/4

5Va

38%

10%

7%
41%

38% ;:4l..v: %

•

27%

29

102 y8
28%

105%
32%

1051/2

107

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28%

26

27%

28%

37%

31%

35%

35%

38 /£,

36

391/2

45%

39 Vi

43%

38%

45%

51

44%

38 Vs

49%

47

'• 108%

31'

34%

37

39%

55

52%

59 Vb

50%

50%

53

*

47%

46%

39%

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49%

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51%

49%

50

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-

#.

43%

37

31%

34

3P%

13

7%

6

38%
107

69 ;
199 '

193

196

190

9'/b

40%

108 #•
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>

71 rfti

190

9%

101%

37%

34

105

4%

>

63%

59Vi

37%

104

26%

22%

105V2

32%

37 VB

19%

521/2 #53 •:•■#

64

•61 Va

64%
106

55

17

\:.y>

101 Vs

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103V4

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3%

31%

59

33%

191%

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7%

104%

v

104%

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4%

33%

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48%

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9

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47

v

66%

61%

3%

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20

41%

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v.

53%
52
19% X22 Va

26

27%
:

104

101%
188%

7%

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#:

#

102

67%

192%, 195
8 VB
9%
4

16%
55

31%

17%

16

53%

18

99

2
—

17%

30

19%

;

10O

Seal

15%

19

17
.;

105%

65V4

68 Vb

1941%

4%

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16 Va

16%

541/4 *"58 %

33%

v

r'js/v#
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30

20%

19%

7
V

50Vi

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38%
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51%

53%.

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100

22

50

52

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23%

51

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38%

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40

51%
57%

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20i/8

51
18

43

38%

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51%

55

35Va

21

50%

/,

151/4

36%

37%

51 ;vi

55

16 VB

18%

16%

20

•

17%;:
58%

55

34%

14%

53

32%

16%

14%

58%
17

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19

16%

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14%
33%

151/s

55%
.

35

15%

20 Va

II

30%

15%
59%

113

;

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16%:

16%:

55

.

110

16%

33

14%

17%

13%
54%

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43%

48%
112%

•

20%

15'/4

52 Ve

/; 13%
50% 54%

xl3

44%
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50

108%, #

,

34%

50

56%

44%

50-

hi

321/2

/.

107

18

;

131/4

5

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22
53

: 50

100
50

107% 108

-•47

32%

35%

15%

'

20

32%

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13Vb

VB,'

49%; 51
20

521/4

35 Vi

20%

50%

13%

10%

34

20

11%
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32%

17%

15

13

51%

11 VB

32

13%

'

108 Va

108

105

105

100

99

49%

•

#

35%

18%
14%

12

49%

42
107

9%

36

32%

12%
49%

14 #
54

,

31%

12»/e

16

Corp

11%
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107%

106 Va

100

94%

93%
45%

41 S

47

1091/2

108

12%

49

44 V#

;

40

28%

109

104

93%
37%

113% 115

113% 114%

115

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30%

-

29%

-

•

100

5




103

110

50%

50

151/4

15%

17%
1%
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161/4

30%

29%

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104%

111%

2109

51

4IV2

106

1

21%

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page

104%

103

'

32%
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31%
36%
21%

103

104 J

106%

28

17%

-

4%

102%

4%:

1081/4
5%
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•

4

104
.-

105

1061,4

16%' 17%
1
1%

17%

15%

.27%

r-r-'-.r

—

105

103
105%
99% 104

106

39%

44%
49
43
50
44% 48%
9%
11 /
10
; 11%
107 Va 110%.
108% 110%
1041/2 106
104i% 107
50%

43

,*■'/"/

8%

see

30%
42%

16%
38 Va

17

'/*

33

40
36%
39% / 36%

50%

23Va

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footnotes

36V4

341/2

31

116

.

19%

$2.25 preferred

For

36

32%

32%

8 Va

106
50%-/45 % ■' 50%
112%
111
113

/;

14

15%
39 V*

36

104

"51
47»A

44VB

45

43

105%

it

92 Va

ni

/ 45%

50 /

49%'

48%

50

107% 108%

ii%::

u

:

49%

47%.

10%

*

(The)

63%

31%

361/s

34%

U0

125

1051/4

106

26%

—

common

182

59 Va

IO2V2 103% Xl02%

40%

Ve

29%

98

23 Va

preferred

Rights

38

42%

30

6%

28%

Delaware.."

preferred

52 Va

155

72

62Va

;%-44,
ill

47

113

41

35

23%

pfd

Co

41%

,

176*

1751/4 182
.

101%/103%;

46Ta

.

40

103%

27

Cream of Wheat Corp

_

97

46

Electric

&

36%

7'

19

preferred

Cork

37

,6%

51/4/6%

5%,
99»/a

23

<■

preferred 5%

convertible

Crown

38%;

.

18%

preferred

Crosley Corp

35%

4%

27%

Corp..

International

/

155

65%

43%

44

41

110

33%

401/a
401/2

22%

Fibre

of

Coty Inc

5%

38'A

24 Va

Corn Products Refining

3 %%

38'A

19

Exchange Bank Trust Co..

Crane

35%

I

21%

Corning Glass Works

Coty

38

X25%

Copperweld Steel Co

cum

30%
48%

43%
112

/ 33

46%/
32# # 46% ;

25 %

20

Cooper-Bessemer
$3 prior preferred

7%

32%

27%

:

Co

59

;

.;'39'r/-/V42%.#//;89%:#:44%/#:44/:##;49:

40V4

35%

35%

30%

23

Motors

Convertible

50%

22%

Insurance

Cornell-Dubilier

36%
34%

37%

33%

36%

18%

Can

$3.75 preferred

Diamond

63%

111
110% 111
29
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26%
29%
14%

-45%
1*11%
25%
28%

44

25%

Baking Co...—...
preferred.——.^..—
$5.50 preferred

Oil

J9%
27%

20%

8%

Continental

.28%

10

Continental

Continental

49%

1491/4 175
62Va
65

111

25
_

Continental

37

52

149
65%

..

pfd__100

(Del)..
$4.50

*
15

—

Co

41%

48V4

/

101%

42%
45%
110% 112
25%
32%

32

24%

24%

5

Gas

Co

39%

53Va

1351/4

36V4

34%'

85%

48%

40'/a

95

22

—1

preferred
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Coal

59

41%

135%

36%
101% 103%

33

.941/4

103%

107

,29%

*

Container Corp of America....^...-20

3%%

90

47%

17%

28%

;

4 '.

»

$2.50 preferred
Consumers Power

25%

•;;33%^737%/J

5%

4%

95.:/-

98

*

$1.25 conv preferred
Consolidated RR of Cuba 6%

Corn

,

85%

107%

5

Corp

of N

Co

Natural

56%

49

152

64«

59

57%

56%

146%

64«/a

100-

371/4,

148

63

33%

1

29%

Laundries

Continental

:

93

:40%

107

25

Consolidated Vultee Aircraft

.

41/4

102

89

U

Industry—:

participating

Continental

35 Va

.

/47%^49;<"

*

;

preferred

Consolidated

,99

40
50

147

/

64%
110

109

100

99,

56%
-

105

113%

60%

106% 110

/

„„„

*

$4.75 preferred
Consolidated Coppermines

Consolidated

68%

.

22%

Inc

Film

>

111

58

100

132%

30

37%

84

*

——;

Edison

108

98%

-w

64%

20%

32%

28%

90 V*

I

Cigar

Consolidated

28%

32 V»

35%

31

•

Continental

31%

27%

35%

Nasi Publications" (The)-....^>

Consolidated

'-

103

112

205

/

111

149%

40%.

42

—

Congoleum-Nairn

108

/ : 56%

Corp

Commonwealth Edison Co

$2

36%

.

preferred—100

Consolidated

25

28%

-4%

100

Solvents.,
Commonwealth Ss Southern
$6 preferred series.

$5

29%

24%

34%

"

^—100

Commercial

Conde

29%

; 112

111

33

Credit—;39

cum

111%

111

35%

4%

convertible preferred.

3.60%

110

98*%# 98%

25

72Va

•69

/i03Vja

102:

59%

108

371/4

104Va

21%

25

69%

6OV4

110% 115
55

39%

:;.1638

105 U

99

,

/

30
68%

;

101

103

'

60

98%

58%

102

61 :/#

146

38%

34%.

39Va' 44%
110% IIH/2

41

37%

40%

25%

$2.75 .preferred—':

.

100

54

X107V2

27

581/2

205

*
33%

Co

^

Pictures

; i 185

98

14%

52

271/4

"

103 ;
16%

581/4

55%'

54Va

46%

40

preferred series A_
Preferred Sfo series...
Columbian

31

*

—

6%

Columbia

23%

36 Va

—2.50

—^

Gas

25%

58V«

100

:

'

Columbia

112

23%

—2.50

—

111

115

28

1-11100

1st preferred—,^....100

non-cum

60%

.

110% 113

»/■

;■

-

Ry Co

37%

ill

»

common

•

14%

56

140V4

23%

25

451/4 -49%
102

47

44

128 Vb

51V4

.55%

23

149V4

'

'34%

100

Colorado Fuel & Iron.
Colorado & Southern

61

471/4

15

>10%

11%

/

27
X23

20 ^

125V4 134

128

66

;

21%

•

48

39

39%

60%

23%
21

8V4

9V4

6%

36V2

128%

32

102Va 103%

preferred

60%

X20%

$3.50 tireferred/w....—
•

58

24»/4

17% .19%.

46

■

13.4%

130

141

64»A

58

18%

35%

38%

55Va

59%
58V4

57%

35%

58

19 Va

98V4

57%

37%

56%

,

100

33%

I491/4

41%; 44%
;146>// 151 /

44%

140

100

38

33Vi

*

55

99

107

107

991/4

97 y2

38

138

:

33V4

28 Va

;30j/4

31%

191/4

120 Va

72

36

29%

28;:/

571/2

110% 112
• 46%
53%

107

53%

97%

,14477.148/#.;

;

54%

51

97

1

IHV4 113
'46%
50

112

36J/4*

39%

r 28%

—

31%
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111

96

37%
39%
:147
147'

65

—

*

35'/4

63

62'/a

Colgate-Palmolive-Peet

lllVi

421/4

66

29'/B

185
105

110

50

IO8V4

96%

v

53%

149 '

——

49»/4
109

95

34'/4.

44

50

100

X99

101

112

-

37%

76%

:

18%
17%

105
12%

10%

54

100

97

114%

102Va

Xl2

IIOV2

94

110 %

10%

51%

54%

95

53 Va

91

114%

131/a

12
;

v 47

102«% 102%

105

'52 ' ::/; 57%

13%
58%

73

471/4

70%

.

56%

186

185

'

94

111%

12%
55

57%

103

102%

101

•

12%

59%

10

109% 111%
44
45%
93%

101.

101

100V^ 101

103%

m

50%

52%

70

41%

22
421/4

36 V2

112%

45%

74

'

72%

53

125%

21V8

36

96%

46%

70Va
45

291/2

:

56V4

i 7
#33-# #

1061/4

112%

46%:

104%

44'%

Molybdenum Co_._
*
Cluett, Peabody & Co__——*
7%. preferred

Collins 8s. 'Aikmani:--:--.:./;L../

33

681/4

681/4

58

31

105V4

94%

47%

49

6%

'7%
33%

116%

104%

44%,

Climax

$4.25: preferred--—

6%

36

'93%

117%-

-

18%

16 Va

17%

32 Va

8%

6%
34

45

98 /

16%

108 Va

96V4

50

Corp

67

•31

41%

43

19V«

56%

18%

16%

18%

91%

«

International

28

57 VB

52

57%

'

8%
35%

-6%
31

26

-

*

42%

5

—

•

53%

57%

57%

16%

17%

54

57V4

17%

•71/8

100

(The)

29%

29%

53%

51%

52%

58 Va

♦

A...

31

25V4

26 VB

20% #26% f

24

54%

36%

_•

gtd

29%

27Va

25%

66%

63 % a 73%

20%

/♦.;

-

11%
30%

37%

.

24%

5

guar. 4%

291/4

10%

9%

9% .11%

87/b

9%

:

63

42%

32%
57 V»

76%

16%

I8V4

49%

.38

67%

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4%

7%

26%

21%

69>;;.
24%

x5lVa

29%

Cleveland Graph Bronze Corp (The)__l
5%
preferred..—
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■

69%

24

18

25

;

38%.

'

58

#"'•

16

17%

60

20%

27%

•

231/4

10

;

Cleveland & Pitts

8%

28 Va

24%

31

27%
24 Va

53%

56V4
16%
16%

Ry Co
—.—100
5 7o
non-cumulative preferred
100
Cleveland Elec Ilium $4.50 series pfd-*

Coca-Cola

.

#'-25'/

49

C C C & St Louis

Class

«■

•

Corp. .*

City Ice & Fuel
City Investing
5 % % preferred
City Stores
Clark Equipment

Special

30%

65%

63%

19%

55

>

35Ve

23

58%

39%; 22%
22

62%

*

—

Chlckasha Cotton Oil..
tChilds Co
£
Chile Copper

:C1T

bU%

21%
23

38%

29%

32%

28

29%

19%

•

divs)

cum

Chicago Yellow Cab—...,

Chrysler

25% '

30'A

54%

#.—*

preferred
($2.50

27%

9%

7

66%

25%

5

Chicago- Pneumatic Tool.—.:
convertible

28%;

10%:

8%

loo

Vtc for preferred series A 5%.—100

$3

27%

24,

\

8Va

wj—.*

vtc

Chicago & North Western vtc for com*

Prior preferred

.

6%

24%.

" 7%

6Va

.—.—50

—

Chic Milw St Paul & Pac
Series

50

'

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commkkcial

Thursday, January 31,1946

financial chronicle

&

NEW YORK STOCK RECORD
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.STOCKS

/

February

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*„*

i

,

Low

$ per Share

...
s

$ per Share

Crown Zellerbacll
$5

Corp
5
20V#
21V#
preferred,,—103
104Va

cum

$4.20 preierred
$4

2nd

u,

non-cum.

*

preferred

Cuban-American Sugar Co
7%-.

cum

-87%,

4%%

30

25%

:

,_2.50

108Va

preferred——;
Curtiss Wright Corp_„——

«

29

<

.

,,1

pfd

5c/c

preierred,,,^..,,

&

Delaware

Detroit

Lackawanna

&

New

21
67

«

36

/;

Dow

-

Ltd^
Inc

;

(E I)

Duquesne Light 5%

Ekco

.-4%%

.

.-

icily*

22%

21%
Z 68

68

22% ■
/;

68

68

44%

41V*

'44%

~-

—

45%
37 -:/■■:

25%

23

39%

47%

36

25%-

43%

45

44%

38%

18%

38%
43%

17%

21%

Z

40%

-22%

44

%

24

Va

55-

20%

17%

108

108'A

; 23% : 26% /

>

70%

127%

125%

134%

137%

132

112%

112%

114

112

54%

60%

~'

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-

" •'

,,

14%

13%

42

;■■

25

23

42 Va

34%

45'/#
36%

23 %

22%
71

/#*#

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25%

46%

40 V*

23

71

75

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22%

26%

38

38

42 %

44%

42%

//

56

21 Va
49%'

25%
60

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-

105

105

-

/

23%

22

56%
106

105%

29

26

28

25 V*

Z
Z

47 %

48% ;

48

49

47

49

48%

243a

22%

24%

20%

23

21V#

24%

24 V#

27%

26%

26%

22%

25%

22 V*

24'#/

22%

82

90

783A

9012

85 7#

24% ,23%
93
88%

;

134 Va

143

1133a

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114

113%

114

27

30%

27%, 30%

13%

16%

15

27 V#

127 Va

138

129

141%

113

112

113

11%

44%

17

18%

17%

18%

17%

21%

22%

25%

25

32

32%

29%

32%
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16

17%

16%

19%

16

18

16 V#

17%

16%

19 V#

18 V#

19%

18%

52

62%

57

63%

55%

63%

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68

65

79%

79%

94%

94

24%

22

25

21

25%

20%

24%

20

21%

21

22%

21%

30%

30V*

175

181%

175

183%

177%

183

177

180%

170

179

187

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188

192

190
197
56%
61

196

200

192

196

52%

57

53%

58%

23%

26%

24

27%

28

,

/
—

•

—

—

.

10%

8Va

45

50%

48%

14%

16%

14%

17%:

14%

5%

8%

6%

9%
-

17

5%

6%

6

7%

5%

4%

6%

6%

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120%
112%

116%

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;

18%

14%

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116
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115

123%

43%

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43%

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27%

21%

20%

22%

71
104
106%
23%
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106 >

26%

23%

28

24 V#

21%

24

65

63

66%

65

66%

105

106%

104%
102

101%

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106

107

104

104%

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106
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.

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,

24%

103

104

103.

105%

104

106

/

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106
106.v;
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104%
1%
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105

2

16

18

16%

20%

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19

71

75

1

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75%

71%

83

77

82

79%

84%
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79%

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—

...

88

88"

7%

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...

89

14

19%.

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51

45%

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53

57%

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33%,

6%

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20

25V#

31%

29%

31%

27%;

16

14%

16%

12%

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13%

17

20V8

21%

19

22

19V#

21%

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106%

105% 106

297/#

28%

23%

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10%

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103

—1

104..106

«

25%

.

31

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25%

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prior preferred
Francisco Sugar Co_.

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1

20

IThei

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20
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1

preferred
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5VA

44%

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33

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79

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81

105%

103

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17

69

105% 105%
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42;
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,

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31

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110

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37
40
39
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40 Va

42%

32%

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32

12%

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13

41%

28%

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50 Va

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104 Va
:

105

106

34%

32

64%

110

60%

2%

19//: 20 Va

69%

68

31

34

62
70%

Z 60%

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47%

46%

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59%

65%

63

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107%

107

109%

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57%

55%
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66

70%

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110

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.

56 Va

33%

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36%

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108%

,

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110

111

50

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26%

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72

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59%

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38%

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26

18%

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,

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145

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24 V*

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160
10%

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27

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146

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50%

67

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153 7/a

:

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162

12%

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19 Vb

18%

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25

29%

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26

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13%

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55

53%

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76

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,

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,

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146

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,

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16%
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30%

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48

25%

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56

63

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14

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21
21
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38%

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:

109

24%

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50

631.

28%

105%

16%

preferred,

24%

59%

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27%

110%

/.

100

23%

53%

_1

cum—

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l

107%

59%

30%

l

10

105%

110 V#

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s

106%

—

preferred,-100

1

35%

56%

41

•

Fruehauf Trailer Co

31%

108 V8

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Freeport Sulphur Co__

33

11%
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52%

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36%
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10

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38%
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10

54

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Corp,,^—„..„__10

32%

24%

11%

107% 108%

7.5a

convertible' preferred—
Food Fair Stores Inc.,,-

38%
27%

104%

28%,

52%

105

20%

21

6

33%

14%

.23%

23%

: 55%

29 Ve
29%

22%

.

18%

17%

...

;

51%
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32%
16%

19%

23%
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57

14%

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50

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304

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9%

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A

31

7

104% 106

24% .26%

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52%

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class

30%

56

13

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Co__

48%
28%

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130

1%

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13

7 V#
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6%

13

71

16%
5%
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19%

15%.
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16%

45%

11

64

48

15%

19%.

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Ore

Prop

1ft

Green

Bay

Green

<H L)

8%

17
55

60%

59

65%-

31 Va

33%

32%

39%

166%

172%

170

? 65

ti

i?:s

,

19

20 %

169

-71

57%

62%

31%

.

173

39

170

/ 72

'•

173%

71%

71%

75

> >

86

74

68

;! 25%

28%

28 Va

30%

106%

107%

107%

107%

.37%

42%

41%

46%

45

55%

6%

26%

8%

8%

11

10%

12Va

67

;

106%.

76

'

;>.x35

30

226%

—.

-

:

'

3814

Sugar——

preferred—l«

19

70

RR Co„
CO----—

Greyhound Corj)
(The.)——.
4% ft preferred L--—:
111*.
Grumman Aircraft Eng Corpu.
Guantanamo

> 107%
16 Va
21%

107

109%

32%

<fc Western
■■

,■108

56%

preferred

■

105% 107

.17%

6ft pfd

Great Western fiugari—

>

39%

59 ■>

10%

f/5%

7%

102

35

Great Northern By

;.'v;

67

73

62%

.

55%
156 Va

>35%

104%

•

58

39

150

40

ioa%

preferred
3%% preferred

-

63%

102%

7%

63%

New common
■

26V4

55 Vi
'■

—L—100

Steel—.
(W T) .Co-.*—,,**

Grant

111%

101%

■

Hosiery———,-—-4^4.,——l*

Granite

46

109

105%

42%

Granby Cons M S & P Co Ltd_...
Grand Union Co (The),
,

'41

109

*

Graham-Paige

38%
107

25%
22 Va
104% >104 Va
50%
45

102%

40Va

preferred__--_L-^-.——ii—-*

Gotham

41%

33%
107

42%

21%

104

33%

*

.4

31-

103 V'4

100%

105%

15%

93%

Va

.—50

:

34

133%

-

38%

107

104 >

(B P) Co_—

124

,

44%

38%

34%

Goebel Brewing Co——I

$5

115, ■:". 122
32%

32

*8%

26%

105%

;

Goodyear Tire & Rubber—.
$5 convertible preferred
;

~7%

V

29%

36'A

$4.50 preferred—

Inc

8

30%

rV' •>■'•

w——*

$6 preferred

33%

46 Va

31%

■■"

27%

107 Va

,

7%

•

106% 109

,100
,

107

29-

•

38'/a

32%.

107

■;■

5%
39 Va

140

6%

V.

124

33

32%

107

7%

112

7

41%

37%
138

29%

5%

109

4%

39%
140

137%

24%

32%

Goodrich

107

25

109

77%

21

29%

5%

101% 109%

71%

126% 129

14%

2%

2%

30%

71

126%

X27%
■

108

123

133%

120

24'A

Goodall-Sanford

49

131

120%

25%

Stock Telegraph

46%

50%
133

60%

110%

<fc

47

129%
115%

4%

preferred

5%

115%

19 V*

convertible

5%

129%

22%

(The)

;V

160%

48 'A

:•

5 Va

-

5%

128%

19%

Bros

5

157

160%

22%

.convertible preferred-.—

171

168%

1A

60%

29

Gold

170

161

4%

152

'

127%

110

Glidden Co

,33

>

35

161

36

32%

4%

45%

132-

29 Va

Gimbel

::

131-

28

10 'A

'

„

35%

167%

107 V*

$5

32

>

43%

32%

19

7 "■ Rights'.———l
Gillette Safety Razor

.

142%

162 V:

13

23%

Pft 1%>

preferred

38

33%
137

>41%

43

26

cum

15

13%

14%
38%
145

45%

41%

44

Co———5

4ft ft

27%

: 44%

•

42%

48

*30%

21

Rubber

23 Va

32

141%

-LL..*

<te

25

4'/a

172

44%

41%

27%

•,

10%

_•
General Telephone Corp—-—..
20
General Time Instruments Corp-—*
4%',
preferred
100
Tire

14%
185%

31%
171%

75

24%

General Steel Castings $6 pfd—,

General

61%

12%

11 Va

37 V*

145%

Corp_—————1

Refractories—

General Shoe

58%
183%

12%

22 V4

-

13 Va

11%

61%
183

11%
181

24

137

128

9%

10

—10c

General Realty & Utll Corp
General

24%

109%

58%

11%'
183

31%

142

68'/a

54%

55%

*
—100
10c

-

80 Va

17%

*

37%

131

125%

22%

*

.

preferred-.

12%

30

131%

68

128

129%

53

—•

General Public Service-——

22

10%

31

27

32%

130

32%:

i;

11%

(■:M •-r:

37

139

,120

21%

"

preferred-.

60

10%

183%

10

129

63%

65

127%

General Precision Equip Corp
•
General Printing Ink——-L-1

$4,60 series A

79

109

58

58%

10

26 Va

1291/4

172

56

50%

183

9%

55

10

—-l——„—*„«.:

Common

36

80

22%

114%

—

.

108%

10

'>■,

41%
>

107%

J

183

129%

————•

—

107%

:

35

69%

19%

,

40%

19%

70

17%

,

High

$ per Share

Xl07%

63%

18

100

Corp—L————

preferred-

33

i

16%

-.-Li-

General

65

i

December
Low

High

$ per Share

33

9 %

TVa ■>■:: 7%
28% : V 27%
30

55 Va

50

107

105%

43'A
-—.—

59

••

28

29%

181 Va

140

.—100

l~

preferred-—.

conv

Rights

-

107%

61

14%

.

common

preferred—.:.—

3% ft

$5

107.Va

59

26%

183%

120

142%

140

Mills-———

New

5%
•

16 %

27%

November
Low

High

$ per Share

108%

3%

preferred series A—

cum

60'/a

13%

24%

Low

High

180 Va

21%

'

General

59 V«

>

Low

$ per Share

180%

X174

134

168

43%

42%

%

28%

167%-

38%
40

162 V2

28'A

56%

9%

■V,.

'

22%

125%

29%

42

52%

>

10

173 Va

7%

40%

55'A

:9 %

25 Va

37%

158%

24%

October

September

$ per Share

'

X128

28%

29%

164

97/»

156%

160

August
High

Low

High

$ per Share

29

14V8

19% :, 22

123%

27%

55
a

*

4—*.
class

30%

61 %

■

14%

>'.• 174

171

22%

117

29%

July
Low

High

$ per Share

27%

•

106%

9%

10%
xl72%

-19%

.

$ per Share

63

.

June

Low

..High

108%

9

123%

28%

129%

•>:

40%

-

Electric

&

7%

■.

20%
115

31.-

100

Co—Lll--——.

Corp—

preferred

7, 6%

22%

28

preierred——

General

General

12%

h 18%
11* 6

22%

114% 123

,*—100

General Cigar Inc—

$4.50

59

14%

,

172

18 %

7%

19

preferred*—'——

7%

60'/a

170

9%

160%

19

17%

54%

*9

9%

160% 161%:

,-5

,—:■—

•>49,--:

52%

49

:/

-

-

24%

104%
106% 106%
51 Va
52
•>■■■55%:

100

General Baking Co
—
5
$5 preferred- —ll.;.—-,—l——-*"■

7%

28%

108

Low

'

-

May

<

High

$ per Share V

58

.$6 preferred
—ll————.

Low

23%

General American Investors—l

$4.50 preferred

April

:

$ per Share

:■;

28%

26

V

High

Low

■

12%

—50

preferred

26

58

■

5%%

High

$ per Share

$ per Share.

Gaylord Container Corp^*-—5

March

February

January

'

8 ft,

preferred ctfs.;
%
$S conv preferred-.-Gulf -Mobile. & Ghta RR—
$5 preferred---.
;:Oulf Oil Corp

1.94

—
—

„L———

,

Water—!

Hackensack
Preferred

Hall ,PrUitlng----a-^—

37%

Hamilton

x

24%

Watch--i.i-^._^—i-U-.
preferred——;——
Aft- conv preferred—-—
Hanna (M A) $4.25 preferred—.

.
'

7

;

113% 121.
105

106%

25

29%

40

43%

Refrac——.—

Walker

Harbison

r

43%

27%'

'

>6%

-

6% preferred—_i.
Hart, Shaffner & Marx

•i

:

Hat Corp of America
'<

'

4Va%

class A

(modified). —,.100

preferred

Hayes Industries Inc—

i

-*-■—

Hayes Mfg Corp—l-——-

—

•;

1,

Hecht

;

Hercules

:

.

170

6'/a-

Motors—

;

-

82

Hindc

<fc
Co

The————

(C E)

&

(A)

Hollander

49'A

,45%

17'A

18V4

18%
25 Va

116%

117

i

117

90

-

183%

184

184

38%

37

115%

333

137

135

preferred

33%

29%.

32%

-

45% '49

55% ; 63%

58

19

24%

26%

24

29

29 L

35

30

*26

;

i

_■*

^

51%

55%

52%

57%

46%

V'46%

48

45

46%

45%

45%

45

45 A

20%

22%

19%

21%

21%

25

21 Va

55 Va

56%

26% i

25%

27%

25%

26%

26%

27'/a

VT

49%

60%

;7>:50>>7.

57

-

-—100
-——100

103%
663a

70%
14 Va

13

L—1—5

34%

40

74

69%

12%

39%

Howe

Sound Co———

Hudson

5ft

v

Manhattan

&

RR——-100

2

2%

,

2%

7

'

2%

7 3"Va

2%

'3

-

14% >i
32 V2

77 28 'A

32%

187«

17%

19%

% 17'A

21%

4%

•5%

——r—»,*

14'A

Corp—i.————1'

3%

5%,

Idaho Power Co

—20
——100

29%

31%

32

f

34'A

19 Va

24%

20%

47%

56%

72JA

77

18%

24

10

29%

Non-cum conv
r

vLeased
RR

line

sec

For

4%—_——M

stock

ctfs

footnotes see

series
page




—100
A—1000

631.

:V:

CO

7%

38%

10%

RR Co_.
6ft series A pfd—100

4!4

364%

43%

29

Central

42%

37'A

Hupp Motor Car

Illinois

7; 39%

43%

12%

■

12%

108%

J.5%

29 %

Car—

78%

17%

15%

10

Motor

78

15%

72

18%

27

Hudson

05%

75%

17%

74%

14%

preferred————100

Bay

109

x79%

39% ' 43%

%

7t Va

17%

Mining & Smelt Ltd——*

non-cum

Hudson

25

25%

27Va

27%
.•

,

t c——25

Texas

na

.Cf

14.

r

12 %

17%
31%

20

s;
7

:

30%

55 'A

60%

56Va

19%:

27

23

31%
v

81%
A

23%

37%

34%

37

32%
'

79 V4

27

30%

33

37%

35%

42%

H3

64

83%
-

31

'

87
~

34

V

.68%
86
33%

102

108

.

34%

34%

31%

36%

39

29%

35
65-

45
45

-

32 Va
32%

36%

38%

:

82

5
-5

6%

25%
5%

,

107

76%
14%

85
*15%
>40%

14 \ -17%
28 %
26%
2814

.& 23%

29%

34
f 28%
32%
4%:"> 5%': >• 4% ?" 5%.

25%

v,/7 •,f, 79

;. 16

26%

4%

25 Va

79

4%

x29%

34%

72%

2%:

29 %

31

■

>••

107

10%

,

5

75

6% '

.

16
16

6
6

15
16%
15
16%
29 34
27%
29%
31%
27%
27% 31%
6%
5V»;
P>5% > 6%

35

■57 >

v.

51%

26%

-.

56

__

63^>'i''

L 25%
59 "'-'"' 61
4K

'

.*•

2¥%™v2?%

^• .vr|4:.aa"tw«..

.

107nVtKl07%
102Va 106%
105% 107nVti;107% 109 ,,
87%
83%-^87%^
80
84
83%
87% • -83%
-22%^
>19%
15%
19%
19%
22%f* 19% SL23%
44
49%5 v 47
" 5*4
42%
45%-.
44 ■- 49%t^47
8 *C> 6Va
6Va
-5%
-7%.
6%: & 8^.6% ;n:8%
18
a21
17%
-16-19%-;i -17% >20%
20%
18
35 "a
34%
29%
'28%
32%29%
35% ' 34% ''136%
28 Va
30%
28% "32%
27%, 32
,
28% 30%
28%
5%,
7
9%
' 5%,' 6%
5% i7%
7%
7
.

,

.

35%

38%'

36%

40

32

-37%

35%

38%

36%

41%

40Va

44'

-61

-69%

65%,-69%.

69

75

75

84

90

91%

89%

92

34%

38-

>36%>;>.37-%';

*

„

,64

-70

55%

91,

89

91

81%

88

81%

84

§5

% 91 Va

38

31%

37

28

31%

30%

32

32

33%

74-

25 Va

>

23%^ 22

-V.;

1——

x61%

•

-

26

Houstori Li<rht & Power Co—„——*

Oil of

32

31V4

$2.25 preferred—
L--—50
Finance Cory:.—.—
*:

Houston

138

28%

23 Va

53

88% >
:i;

134%

30%

45

49

'

:

115%
138

.■

85%

->-33 %

33

•29%

Household-

New'crmmon, —f
5% preferred—-A

109%

>

130%

39%

135

■:

90

21%

*

—Li—-i. ——'*

103 34

18

49

.

35

31%
103
88

27%

,33%

31

'7723%; .24%

29

116%

16%
14

127%

>

29% >30%

30%

19%

25'/a

Mining—__—————12.50

—

25%

21%

Houdaille-Hershey class A—
Common

73OV4 -32;

—_*
———^100

l—

preferred:—:

Homestake

24%

45%

1

3OV4
26 Va

Son————_5

Holly Sugar Corp
7ft

29 Va

Furnace Co .{Del)——10

Holland

-

29%
24

32%

36%

«

131

Corp
L————-l—5
Dauch Paper Co—V
10

;;

10%

103

112

137 %

; 85 %

74
123%

Rubber

Hewitt

Hires

115%

132

Va

104%

92%

181

.34%

85%

,.

l5-»

120

134%

88%

-

,

33%

184

' 172

after Nov 15——100 V 130%

pfd 5%

28

>

15%

>

»■: 102

88 %.:.,.

22% ■725%

Hcrshey
Chocolate—
:f. 73
$4 convertible preferred———i—123

121

101

V

15%

9%

-

-29%.

22

74%

13 Va

-

.

-

102
——25

Hercules Powder

-

.11%

——————

W)———l,

1ft non-cum preferred—

.••••'

120%-.

20%

preferred
(G

>14%.

73%

Co.:

3%A
Holme

10%

9%
109

101

99

6% >; 7%
' 114

:>

—2

—

101%

X:>"

r*. ;

Hazel-Atlas Glass Co-'„—

,

14

;_;H%

■_.

.

32

-35

38%

'

40 Va

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Thursday, January 31,1943

NEW YORK STOCK RECORD
Low

STOCKS

Low

High

Industrial

&

•

104%

6 Te

preferred-.;

Inland

Steel

11%

Corpdi—d————
preferred
——100

4l/t%

37%

40

106

—

Runner————-*

8%

*
Business Machines——•
Harvester
*

International

International

188

74%

81

2%

Nickel

International

International

share

Domestic

34%

30%

136%

87% -/ 94

89%

184

42%

43%

39%

.

19%

22 %

6%.

/•'•; 6 4
31%

36%

130

94%

45%

44%
39%

24

96

(F L)

Jewel

Co—_—

—•

—

34%

40%

36%

37%

111

112

112

109%

109

—

.

12.50

—

-

46%

109% 110%

U0

—

,//-

112

203/a

103%

preferred series* A~
—d-^100
preferred ser B convertible....100

80

84%

82%

91%

98%.

92%

110

—

dy

■

111%

92

92

96

31%

28%

32%

29%

85%

,81

87 '

;

84%

79

96%

37%

'& Furn Co

21

—10
10

20

22%

22%

28

117

U7Va

117 V*

120

—*
Southerq Ry—d—*
-.100
perferred.—--——100

13

1
:_1

27%

Copper
-ddSdidd-f;5
——*
Keystone Steel & Wire-—d-d*
—* '
Kimberly-Clark Corp
*
dd
■Kinney (G • R)——
—-'-1 • :
dd- "
$5 prior preferred—————*
di-10
Koppers Co Inc—d———10;-

; Kress

(S

&

Hi

Co

85%

*

37%

40%

d

:

Laclede
New

Gas

140

146%

Lambert Co

110%

j

——*

•~~r*

——

Lehigh Portland Cement

Lehn

Fink

&

Lerner

Libby
Life

McNeill

Savers

New

,

Glass-

89%

42%
109%

28%

25%

15%
27

27

26

44

■

7%

129

38

95%

38%

94

33%

98

103%

39%

97

103

'

44
Z 44

113

—

54%

15%

31

30%
125

Louisville
New

&

3

2%

2%

MacAndrews

6%

&

Truck

Macy

(R

4% %

H)

Inc__

Madison

Mahoning

Coal

Manhattan

Maracaibo

RR

Marine Midland Corp—

4% %

Martin
Martin

preferred
(Glenn

82%
192%
33%

52%

50%

58%

50%

59%

53

47

24%

Works

Alkali

preferred—
Department

New

common

For

45%

46

41%

44

40%

42%

41

44%

44

50%

5%

5%

5%

5%

--

—

-

}

47%

51

90%

21

34%

—

—

51

60

20%

16%

19%

46%

43%

48%

23

20%

-

171

23%

170

26

173

27%

25%
110

112

117%

20%
172%

25%
—

23%

8V2

52%

91%

—

—

.

'

52
—

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145

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24%

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$ per Share

23%

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105

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$ per Share

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March

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—

footnotes

114%

25%

171%

preferred.

For

111%

113

25 V*

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preferredpreferred——;

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28%

68%

27

120

21%

26%

/ 64%

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48 y8

—

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109%

/

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preferred

Pure Oil Co

112

20%

23»/«

23%

111

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7%

Co

20%

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Pullman

96%

281%

28%

,

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&

24%

110

v

10%

23%

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preferred (ser of Feb 1929)—..100

El

46

90l/a

43
90%

21%

:

10%

27

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Public Service Corp of N J common.

Serv

43%

85

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—

11%

62%

108

45%

40%

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27%

27%
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28%

/

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29

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49

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43

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24%

.

109-

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25

39

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87

9%

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second

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29

113

25

26%'

8%

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58% : 62%

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convertible

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-

102

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107%

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28%

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65%

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first

ft

30

29 %

.-100,

convertible

5 Ye

95

72%

—--1.50/

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9%

19%

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116»/a

25%

——1

rights

107%

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10%

■

class

28%
107 ;

28%
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;

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92%

99

;

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92

29%

•

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36%

17?

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■/* 110*1'15%'

85%-100%

90

26%
107%

.38%^'

26%

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106 y4

24%
33%/ 38%

'

75%

—

Plymouth

9%
33%

95%

'

71

,

99

Steel

111

37%

26

preferred class B_„
_100
preferred class A
_____—100
5% Yo first pfd. fuer conv pr/pfd-lOO/;
Pittsburgh & West Virginia——. 100
Pitts Young ft Ash Ry 7%
pfd
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& Co

113

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17%-

5%

(The)

99%

26%

26%

113

39

25%;

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24

112

39%

15

87

Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt—
Pittsburgh Steel Co

13%

/,7% 1 '6%
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89

37%

22%

•

Chic Ry Co——..100
gtd cum preferred—
.100
Plate Glass Co————10

Pressed

24%

112

98

35%

18ya

6

Pittsburgh

Creek

84

39%

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Pond

21

81 22%

40»/a

24%

85

preferred-.

151%

47% '/ 43%

15%

38

21%

100
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—

147

41

38%

11

•

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13%

39%

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—„—„25;

^

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65

15%

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40%

78%
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(of Pa)—;——«;—100

Iron

—-

5%

12%

37%

11%

Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal
——V
Pittsburgh Forgings .Co__^_——_^_1

Plough Inc

73%

21%

37%

11%

9%

Louis" Ry Coll——IlOO

preferred

Pittston Co

38%

14

Xl8
69

12%
7%

__

65

'

Hosiery———5

Pittsburgh Coal

7 %

36

57%
.

9%

10%

38%

10

Petroleum-«^;>44^-»-^--^--.-•-^,

Pillsbury Mills, Inc——;

...

'4%

30 Z

38%

26 ...
107
8%

9%

:

$5 convertible

63%

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39%

-

47%

64
:

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37%
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106%-

-100

preferredJiii.—

&

109 l/e

29

35

,

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26%

76%

77 *■"

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29
29

27
27
106%

27%

preferred—,
Phila & Reading Coal & Iron
-.1
Rights
Philco Corp
•—
3
Philip Morris & Co Ltd Inc—
10
r; 'New .common :
——.—_5
Preferred 4y»% series_>——.—100 •
Preferred 4 '/a % series---^---—,—100/;
/ 4% preferred ——_—.100

Coke

73%

24%

—

27%

57 f :

connnon—~v»r—*.

St

14%

11%
76

109%

5a

36

73%

23%

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80%

69%

4.4%

6 7c

112

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21%

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112

;

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106%

&

23%

112% 113

' ^

,,91

9%

———*;

preferred

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26%

•

74 .■72
25%
23

15

/

25%
100
lOO

93
93-

V

1

78

9

Philadelphia Electric Co common.;——*/

C

110

26%

121,

;

31

;

17%

5%

20%

65%
68
116% 120

25

(Chas) & Co Incr—r——■—_i/—■

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39%

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.

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108

109%; 110

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.

18%

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——25
Philadelphia Co 6% preferred
50

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12

16%

31%

.

39

:34
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19%
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22
22

107

8

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26%

.

—•
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15
24
24

:

17 y4
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92%
1,92% 100

preferred—^-100

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70%

23%
23%, 26
26

63
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77 ' *
71%

32%
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32%

_

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33%
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37%
39%

34%
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,^-33 %c.
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5%
prior preferred—.
——-100
5% preferred ——XU-——100
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Phoenix

10

8%

21%

^

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Phillips

87

4

40

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173%

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29%

■

.

149%

173

28%

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60

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.

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73%
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67

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—

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58

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30

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80

77

56%

110
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10

preferred—'

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34

23%

76

28

58'

109

s

14%

—

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61%

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14%

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110

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75

34%

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6

,

35%

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v

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Petroleum Corp

?

162

53%

166

Pennsylvania Salt Mfg Co———
-10
Peoples Drug Stores Inc———w—5
Peoples Gas Light & Coke_,
—100
?;

i8%

ill8%

33%

161

28 »/4

167%

6%

23

64%

160

-

164 %

19

160

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157

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23%
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119

r

115

23%

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161%

20 y4

158

n

&

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:

23%

21%

60

162%

Cement Corp
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New capital stock -.—;——-7 -_r
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87 .conv preferred series •

Power

31%
116

31%

141/2

213/4

-112

21%

112%

21%

57%
«

112 *

21%

29%

115%

56/1

57%

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108%

19%

63'%

53

55%

30%

12%.

114%

53%

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17%

,

111%

57

noya

114

30%
/ 162

54

56

18%

26%

24%

163

56%

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111

108

14%
113% 118
18 •:./
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118

161

29 »A

109

52

11%

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:

108%

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164 %

54

14%

2V,'8

115

27%

162

54%

13%

.

14%

P

: 124

Penn-Dixie

-5%

High
$ per Share

111% 113
58%

32

j

43%

«•/;£■

——

Pennsylvania Coal & Coke

Penn

December

/ Low

*46%

45%

X35%

129 /

_10

shares—

Penn-Central Airlines Corp—-r-—

-

1

,

High

Share

Enterprises

&

(J C)

Penney

•

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25

■

,
.

38'A

;

—*.

Transportation

&

.

^

Consolidated, -Amer
Penick

27%

49 y4

5

Proof Co————-—.-2.50

Mines

Patino

49%

56

Consolidated Mines——.—1

Rust

48%.

46

108% 107

.JPfcrke - Davis &
Parker

///

26%/ 1/24%
351/2 /v. 35%

:

110% 111%
/—■*/—■

Inc—-w-1"

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■

Utah

51

-

123%

*

—

28 Yi

163

53%

14

109%

12%

23

52 ■,/

108%

25

106%

17%

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52 '

52%

110%

.,17: '/

15%
117;

114%

51

11 V'a

13 %

./'•

52%

15%

13?

49

con\*ertlble preferred—.100Paramount Pictures Inc---—r-w--vl
Park

14

13%

./ 4%

Park

15%
15%

_

Inc;

Co

Low

110% 112%
42%
48%

76

13%

32%

-100

26%

108%

112%

18%

160%

24%

.12%

^

preferred.

Paraffine

November

;

High

xllO'A 111%
41
'46%

69%

X651/4

43%;:/-

•
;

27%;

76

/

128%;:

Panhandle-. Prod; & Refining———-—1.

,

79

68%

14%

6%

cumulative preferred——100.;

5.60%

Low

$ per Share

10

14

14

Us

16%

163

23

24

74»/2
64%

lb

122%

Line Co—--*•

-New common

/ 4%

23%

24

;V-4iy4

Petrol & Trans——5

Eastern Pipe

25%
i6iya

44%

•'

Panhahdle

27%

161%

%

157

15i/e

;':-16%-

Rights
Pan-American

/ 'October

High

50%

54

13 y«

110

15%

113

51:/

*11./;,

51%

29%

26%

113

14%

17%

:

30%

110%

114%

15

12%

160y2

—5
2 ya

——

28%
156

113

112%

121 %• 125%

1

Corp

16%

13%

13

5%

American Airways

115%

14%
25

67%

41%

Corp

111%

'ft

34%

Packard Motor Car—

:

Low

$ per Share

'

/ 110%' 111
46M|i
36 1
45%

;

,10

i

27%

14% / 15%

61,

24

Oil——a.——-10.;

•

111%

'/b

.11%

Co——100

Consolidated

29%

62%

£13% £14%;

preferred—.~—u—,100
Western

19'A

25%

16%

23

22%

22 ye

•

'

17%

29 y4

76

Corp
Teleg

109%

20 y4

58;;

48 */

Lighting
Telep

6%

September

High

45

Mills_j.—.—-—,———

Pacific

Pacific

Low

$ per Share

.111

50

10
&io.iwi 11%
52%
52%. 55
13% :;,14. /
13%
14%.
109
107% 109%
noya
19%
18%
17%:

14%

,

51

x49%

50%

,V:,73/av
,/:5if /

50%

13

io9ya

113%

;yr:

37

47%

17

13%

25%

50

:

50

111%

17

30%

7%

111%

15%

155 y2

157

42

—25

Pacifio

Pacifio

36

24%

.

113

14%

26%

23%

46

Pacific

&

110

47%

46

/ 115%

110

15

155

non-cum-————•

Electric

&

112

13%

preferred non-cum

Second preferred

113%

35%

14%.

109%

18%.

Co—-v-—-i——~~10;

Pacific Coast

107%

106%

Inc-^——5

Fisheries

13%

26%

,——12.50

Glass Co—

American

110%

August

v;

High

$ per Share v

3%

52

50

14%

19%

*

Outlet Co———————

Pacific

112'A 113

114%
28% h 32 ••••:••

8%

52

111

108%

'

-100
Omnibus Corp (The)——-—------—6
8 Yo conv preferred A—
t*;—100
Oppenheim Collins & Co_;
.—10
Otis
Elevator———a——*
6#>
preferred-.-/;——
—100
Outboard Marine & Mfg——
5
New common,
—2.50
Owens-Illinois

July
Low

112%

51

://s

8%

7%

17%

Oliver Corporation
4%% convertible 'preferred-

;

:">4

High

$ per Share

3 '/a

46%

51

49%

7%

107%

preferred——100
—*

4.4%

Low

High

$ per Share'

35%

26%1%

—

Northwestern

June

May
Low

High

$ per Share

116%

113%

116'/a
35 ::•=

31%

34%

30

*

Inc

115

115%

113%

Airlines

Low

High

(Minn)—

preferred

Northwest

STOCK RECORD

April

$ per Share

$ per Share /

Thursday, January 31, 1946

%

11

•

•

1/^

49

mi

54%

3 05 %

3 09 '/n

304%

112%

114%

114y2xll7

,

19%

18 y4

/

18%

20%

112%

114 Va

112

114%

311 %

713%

3i3%

315%

1 ^1

107%

108%

107%

108%

107

108%

106%

108%

106

23%

25%

24%

24%

26%

17

18%

-17%

27

24

21

27

18%

%

25%

20%
110

51%
19

105

55

*

20%

107

112%

309

116%

13%

.

20 Va

17%

19%

311%

312

110 V2

112

111

32

111/V

107% X106%

109

108%

109%

108%

109%

24%

26%

26%

25%

26%

•24

26%

V

xl08%

138

110

v:

116%
122

...

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:

se«

35%

23

88

55%

series A——t—
—J—*

Class A preferred

Sunray Oil Corp

37

t;. 21%
51%'

88%

49%

Corp—_—— 1

Chemical

$4.50

35

23 Va

81%;

11%

t't/t
tt:

.36.54:

78

80%
85

7%'ys
36%
177

176

-

Sj

•

wS&i

•

21%

84%.

72

83

180

;•

.

18%

5%

154

tV

38%
*■

31%

60

■>

22%
96

34%

43%

;

,,m-

179

J76

63 a

.32
,

65%

22 ' l

45%

39% ,;:46.v

5354

Stokeiy-Van Camp Inc.-—
1
5c!o prior preferred -————20
Stone

;

89

77

135%

50

79

-

v,

30,

soy®

.83%

.

.

S-V 4%

32

X74 V4;

44y*v.;52%

38%
36
17 y4 :16%

:

S,

23%; i t

■

35

31%

20%

49%

42y»

: ' 55
'
43%. 51%+

.47

57%

'

,i

16

.

45%

179,

i

34%

:

24 Va

47

4854

_100

—

177

.

,73.

„

t 5%

4%

-

:

49%

———A—^..5

common

.3%'&

'47%

;>5%.

25%
48

'

.

V4%

•

.44%

;

.22

48%

49

——

,34%

.

,

,

21 Ya

8554

33%

31%

18

47%

common

'4

3%%

■

_

i.+—*_i.
preferred
:
100
preferred series A___—A—100

New
4

_

87

35:;'

75%
40%
-17%

.15% ;.16%

56

(Ohio)—

Standard

Jersey)

■65 Va

46%

44%';

%

42%

38%, 47%.

,86

•

479

30%

20%;

32

78 3/4

—

California (Del)^„ —*
(Indiana)—
,i- I25

of

Standard Oil Co

32

19%.

28

*.

.

86

18
23

43%

463«

39%

".'+12:15%

85

19%

2354

•

31%

1654

••

6%

13%
i

■

177

3oy*

31 %

A21

35%

$4 pfd— A*;' t; 254

& Electric

Oil

w

20

43%

178%

173

171%

30%

20>A

17%
23

'

2754

/•--;ti;

Standard Brands—.i--——AfvA $4.50 ;• preferred——;—.
Standard Gas

80

•'

*

30%
-

7%

■

12

8%

9%

i.::

—-—i-——

preferred

19

164%

165

29%
i

;■;

12% *;.

.

-

'

18%
23%

.65 : .68,,

•■

48%

3354

12%

*

preferred series A——„—

$4

20»A

,46%;:X51%;

58

17 Va

22%

48

;
4%:: 'St: 4%
4%
21%
20% i 22% S

5

22 v
51%

35 y8

i*

-i--— ii—

156%

30%

20%
46

48

18%

•23%

16%

;

16%

.

,2954

,

.

•

common

.47%

.

4%

-

14%

16 Va

27%

33
■

*

112

preferred——«AAA:
Square D Co
——A——-— —I
5% convertible preferred-;—---- 100.
Squibb (E R) & Sons—^-VA—

$4.25

7%.

■'?'}

__

Spencer Kellogg & SonSi—ir-i—
(The)--—
Sperry Corp
*,
:
Spicer Mfg •, Co--—A-*w-—.
; $3
I-*;
convertible preferred A
—

■

7%

7% K 9%

Spear & Co

New

12%

6%

Sparks Wlthington Co (The)--—

$4.50 conv

,41

.

5'A
23 :

85

Bl%

——

/

18%

4%

13%

73%
82 ;

series A_l—-—ii_

42
159%

14%

.16%

22

23%

y4

34%

,

16

'''

64 %

80%

i_*

28

41%

.

5% non-cum preferred—-———100
100
Mobile &> Ohio certificates—A—

$2 preferred

155

165

163

.162%

28% 30
18
X19%>
39
43%

26%

f!7

—.-7.50

22

22%

40%..

45%

32

.

; 4% ; 5 •:

5%

21

21'

•

17%.

x4%-

'•

2iy«

5
*

Southern California Edison—--—.—25

•

;

L

*

70

T

<10%

19%

22%

,62;70%
29%
32%

11

8%

16%

19 y4
23%.

.

29

8%

•;

22
;

•

17%

-54%

■

30

7%

7054 • 65
35% ; 31

16%

16%

.,A7;

27%

J

61

.

16%

22%

16

67

15%

v

36% ;
.

62

„

77 %

!

39 54
18%

48%

:

19

Va.

23%.-

4554 '; 4254

18%:

17

22%

..

••:;,

28

99

«

Vt14" '77 Va

44 Va

23
77

: 20

•.

,79

■

39%

53%

.33%.:

78%

42%

16%

48%

98% :> X9554
2554- 22%

20%

43%

23

31%

t:

.42%.

47

15%

94

;

•'

'

21%

24

38

17%
54

25%

24%,
113
r

38%

23%

31%

54 :15%

41%

,

46%

48%

16

22 %

37%

39

15%

30

11154

y4

36 ;■

41%

—♦

:37% *■'

24

23%

;-2i%

7%

.25%

7%

24

.23%

74%

20

67

;

14%.

t'i/A 35%

40

112

77%

76 Va

;27%

61

63%

Skelly Oil Co-r———A.——-——15Sloss-Sheffield-Steel & Iron---—20 •

•

11%'

9%

18% :: 21

At $1.20 .preferredA.--!--——
Smith (A O) - Corp:.——————. a.10'-

49%

100

92 Va

19%

20%

30% t

21%

25'/4

93 Va

16%

.

35%'

:

9%

17 Va

: 77%: 77%;

79

;'15v / 16%

60%

67%:

25%

.

22 Va

89%

17%
:

8% t

Wa

37

7154 ' t

67

•28

t 110%

25%
111

107%

:t 24%.

22

31%

:

•

62

7

38%

2iy8

113

;.,7%

8%
90%

13%
78

7^ ,76%
.lSl'a" .16%

23%

108%

113

13%

A-

10%

111

V

144

35%

21%

21%

19%

112%

88 Va

.

15%

8%

-

57

111%

111

26%

15

Spiegel Co Inc.:

111

106^

5254
110

65%

17%.

A—-——

61%

109% llOVa
till
11154
29

33%.

$5.50 preferred

106 A

107%

•

55%

: ;

27

15%

Spalding (A Q) & Bros Inc__

124%

65%

30%

Rayway-CP-——f

14%

85%

3) Vat

16%

-

58

111

;

'

8l/a-

114

-

94%

I 8
9%
129% 140

8%

23%

203/a

94

: 76

=

.

21

;

27%

12 5 a

24 Vt

15%

Southern

113

24%

22%

118% 130%

113%

23%

89

•;.'

*19%

n 9 ;r

75%

37%

6%

30V4-

''.•'.•55

13

.

106

107%
111%

31%

Co

t; 85

106%

112

.

25%

7%

8%

112%

22%:
:•

:

121%
't..

13%

74

59%

-

7%

114

22%

26%

114

14%

12%

75% u

13%

-

.

.24%
.

A: 75%

14

75

59%

+

y4

20%

22%,

28%

36

34

«' "■

24%

114%

11%

88

56%

108%*

36%

Natural Gas

"tf

27% J

:

112%

55
77'; 56
;,Tll%: 110%

33%

preferred

25

V

.

.

i2%-

45

.49

23
728
112'A 113%
11%
13

113%

31

8%

29

60%

32%

• ■

12%.
29%

21

112%

48 Va

122

8

i;

85%- 91%

78%

13% :;15:;:

Vl5%^;

20

22%.

9

.

111%

22

Vl2%.

12 Ya 714%:

75%

;

21

22%

113
8%
9Va

9%

85

80%

75%

v ey»

Silver King

Southern

1054
2754

4354 x47 V

20%

!'

111%

26%

23
7
113

113

18%

21

13%

G>—__—-————*
Sheaffer (W A) Pen CO——
-*
Shell Union Oil—15
(P

8Va

V

7%

18%

21 Ya

112%

18

13%
■

7%

102% 107%

103%

21%

77877785 Vt

Ss Dohme—
A A—* ■ %ni i-*»*■ <» »■>■)»»»« —> — f
f t
>
$3.50 convertible pfd series A
—* t

Southeastern Greyhound Lines
South
Porto
Rico Sugar———

11%
29%

-28%
45%

.

18%
31

47
30%

110 y4

108% 107

110%.112%.

,

23% 24%
7%
7%
105y4 122%

25%

24

27
8%

112 y8

20

10%

16%

Sharp

South

^.7%

.

30%

102 y4 105%

21%

"9

Corp———1—1
i
■-Sharon - Steel Corpw—---—.———* .i
$5 convertible preferred—* 7

-Socony Vacuum- Oil Co

16

26 Vs

20%

+

112%

10%

107
108 7X105% 106%
47
51
4.7
50%
111% 112%. 112%: 114%

109 %

108

45
112%

:

-

112 V#

Smlth & Corona Typewriter-.

18%

27

65%

preferred

'.■Simmons

,

8%
29>/a
48

.

-

42V<

407;

10
712%:
66% g 57%

110%

;12%
68%

10 %
56%

—100

Shamrock Oil & - Gas

Shuttuck

ily»

47%

9%
42

113%

common
—*'
Inc_——————————1

New

.

'

8%

:

13%

22%

-S

.

114%

112%

108%

42%

Roebuck ts Co—-—-'———•

Sears

59

44%

106

Delaware

of

Co

Seagrave Corp

.

——

preferred series A wi

5 '!o

56%

112%

—

preferred----——-—;———*

$4

7%

41%

*
preferred:^;,——AAA-

Scott Paper

$4.50

44%

9%

.

38%

preferred^—*—100

554%

21%

A-2.50A

■

■

521\

114%

8%

Savage-Arms Corp—
-5
Schenley DistHlers Corp—;

52 SI

37%

57%

54%

-

t

40%

i-37

preferred—-—-.--—-——100

5 'U

11%

22%

—.

convertible

$2.50

: 12%

'

■

St Joseph

i

12

Antelope Copper Mines—

Roan

:

38

39%

20

.41%

■

•

37

36%

31%

;

103

14%

preferred series-——-100

18%

104%

21

25%

110%

t

109

109%

16

13%

101

15%
98

Rights

15%

36%

28% ]

22

9%

8%
22

107

108%

107

t.

107

h-

27%

24%

UO^

87%

————lQ0t

109

X109

14%

103%

,

..

17%

105%

46

101

13 %

105

.

Reynolds Metals Co——_——*
554% convertible preferred——+—100
Reynolds Spring Co————1.
Reynolds (R J) .Tobacco class B____ 10
■: Common <
10

24

,

14

18%

29%

26%
28%
100% 101%, 100%

26%

19%
90

11%

33

,50

28%

21%

27'A

27

22%

101%

102

.97%

20

18%

25%

16%

87%

21%

38'%

118% 137 v
75 :'t, 82%
%;:

77

+71%

70%. .75 ''•
22%,
18%

.•;'7l' "

>

''

17

119

19'7-.

79

22%
;22%

12%

12;

.

17%
90

36%

23%

129

46

15%
88

19

45%

29'A

43

22%

16%.
90%

97%

104%.

35%

45%

23%

45

18 %

33%

23%

35

,

19%

104%

101%

97%

37%

8%

9%

103

t

38

18% ...•18%
36 Vb
36%

-

8%

'.18

18

High

$ per Share

15

.89
12%

:

Low

High

$ per Share

87%

16%

85

10

36

39%

17%

24%

75'

Aviation Corp_—f—— 1
Republic Steel Corp—;
*
v. 6% convertible preferred
—100
; "G'/tf
conv prior pfd series A
100
Revere Copper & -Brass--———i—-,
Class 'A———AA—---A—---——10

3.60%

13%

87%

101%

37%

35%

16%

17

16

'

December

November

Low

High

$ per Share

12

104%

18%

36%

17

Low

High

$ per Share

86 :

96%

97

94

97%

16%

16%

16%

Low

High

$ per Share

13%

8%

t

39 t't

20%

—

preferred

1

9%

8

17

Low

October

September

August

:

High/
Share

$ per

87%

I6V2

Republic

5 »/♦%.

11%

35%

43%

46

36%

Saratoga—.—————100
——A,-l

&

12 %

86% •■■'85

19%

.

35

35%

118

Inc——,——

Reo Motors Inc

16 '

11%

1
preferred——A——li—25

11%

37

35%

19%
36%

Stores'. Corp-—i—'
Mfg Co
——10

Remington-Rand

37

16%

19% X24

7% cum preferred--————100
Rels (Robt C) & Co 7^ cum.lst pfd 100
Reliance

35%

17%

i;

44

-

Reliable

;

16%

84 V'4

8%

94

35

5

Hosiery Mills Inc.——

94'

99

36%

34%

4'ic non-cum second preferred——50Real Silk

92%

16%

»•

Reading- Co———-—-A-—A-———50
4i'o non-cum first preferred———50

.

94%

34%

lnc.AAA*AA^
preferred———————-——25

$2

9%

98%

7'/®

9%

8

17%

X16%

17

Low

High

S per Share

104%

;

'

9

9%

91

preferred
100
Ralston Purina Co 3 3A5V preferred-100
convertible

Rayonier

16%

July

June

'

Low

High

$ per Share ;

$ per Share

$ per Share

78%

8%

Low

High;

15%

first preierred«-^-r—_-.*
Radio-Kelth-Orpheum Corp—
1

6%

Low

A

i

3Iay

April

$ per

,

16%

Radio

$3.50 cum

it.

High
Share

,

$ per Share

15%

;<■ 3Iareh
Low
High

629

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;

NEW YORK STOCK RECORD
«'■

w

i/

.

.

Low

High

$ per

Share

11%
25%

11 Va

12

79

86

84 > 121

99%

25

29

26

31

25 V2

33

$ per
1

10c
Superheater Co (The)™-*
Superior Oil Co (California)
—25
Superior Steel Corp
—;
100
Sutherland Papei1 Co—™
——10
Sweets Co of America (The) Inc—12 Vz
Swift & Co'
———25

10%

Co___

Swift International Ltd

X23%

34

35

33%

20%

18%

19

31%

33%

33%'

35

32%

31%

7%

9%

9>/a

7%

54%

7ya

8%

Tennessee

Texas

10

13%

16

100
*

30%

38

> 18%

Producing Co—:

Texas

Gulf

SulphUr—

Texas

Pacific Coal &

Texas Pacific Land

ctfs

Sub-share
Texas

Oil——

_——

Pacific Ry

&

>

—

Manufacturing

Thatcher

—

36%

38%

9%

Timken

Roller

'

*

v

38 y2
38 V2

42
42
23
23

16
16

13%

38%

15%
41%:
41%

38
38

18%

17%

15%

55%

9
9
•

•

::'

,

99
99

*52%

47%

1% "5%
4%
5%

"4%
4%

"5%
5%

"4%
4%

5%,
**5%,

32%.

37

33

35%

16%-

18Va

9%
9%

11%

55%'
55%"

54 y4
54%

55%
557/a

10%
10V4

15
15 Va

11 y8
llVa

14%;
14%

15%

14%
i4y8

14%'
14%'

53%

49%

52%
52%

50%

17%
20%
105
107%

107%

10%

11%
28%

i

54
54

prior

City

•

*
*

Corp

Preferred
Oil

4%

Tank

4%%
5Vo

United

5
100

Inc.—

Carbon

United-Carr

_•

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$3

•

Corp

66

26%

—30c

*

preferredA-i—
United Paperboard Co„

—

;

_•

S

preferred

:

:■

12%

36

34%

94" :

51%

Stores

110

•;

;

A

■

53%

57

11%

10%

11%

15%

14

45'

-

,

41

40%

61%

46%

54%

47%

18%:

19%'

17%

,19%

16%

105SM05%
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—

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::'

-

—

—

41%

38%52

44%
54'

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12%

12

40
0

i

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14%

37%

i

~

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21%

23

12

54%
i

v

■>

23%

22%

11

19%'
110
110'

58%'

48%

51%

31%

27

16%-

•

10%
51 y2
51%

'
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30%'

19%

16%

55 Vz
55%

48 Vt
48%

20%
53%

24%

24%
24%

31%

50
'50

22

,

21%

28

16

17%
63

17%
■

56

61%

58.
106%

59

62

.7%

54%

52

59

21%

21%

23

101

43%

102%
45%

43

58

102% 106
44%
49

64

*

60

64%

53

.

—.

58

105

106
106

50%

60%

25

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.,

107%

46%

,

66

59

21%
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-

—

>

;

10%
12%
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15%
18% >17%
17%
19%
66 %
56%
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66%
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65
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112%
111
112%: 111
112%
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9
8
9%

-

108:

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48%
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19:

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57%

105

:

14%

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46%

52

61

65

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23

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27%

32%

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35%
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112

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United Dyewood
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106 >■ 106%
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116
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preferred

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53%

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31%
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34%

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preferred—
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preferred
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54%

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$ per Share

23%

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33%
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7%

32

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55
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51%

7%

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5%%

23%
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$ per Share

14%

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119
31%

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34%

32%

Talcott Ino

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68%

V67/Z

—

37%
18%^
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27%27%
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22%
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—

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2%

1%

15%

13%"
29'/a

27
23%

,

2%

2%
66%
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.

43

——*

43%

50

44

7%
24 Va

14 Va

19 "

24%

41%

',

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"41Z"

44%

110

21

26'A

47%

42%

48

110

110%

29%

113

109

33%

29%

(29%
107

110'/a

23%

34%

36

110% .112%

27%

• ■

33

36%

36

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118%
40

„

112%

115

111%

36%

115

40%

31% ";/,

31%

35%

•45%

49%

49

58%

55 %

9%

10%

11 Va

10%

12%

25%

27%

25%

29%

27

32

48%

*55%

48

55%

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90%

86'A

90

50

55

51

54%

26%

y32%

,

preferred

convertible

Z 45 ya

50 Va

46%

;

28%

26%

29%

29'/8

29Va

28

31%

29%

31%

29%

44

27%

28

29'A x31.%

White Sewing

convertible

30%

31%

35'A

33%

38%

34%
36%
43% "41%

34Va

37%

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37%

43%

41%

45

42 Va

44%

37

Y4%

37%

36%

44%

41'/a

;• 34 :>;

36%

36

38Va

38

33%

31>/a

36%

34%

45

41%

44

42

33%

31

34

27%

31%

28%

31

28%

33%

30%

33

31%

108%

112

109

112

111%

113%

108%

110%

108

110

31
108

110

108

108%

108%

108%

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108%

110%

107

108

107

108%

105

106%

105

105%

72%
101%
36

73
103%
40%

73%

76

73

77%

103%

104

104

ZZ'; 106%

1041/4

105

103 Va

4 4 7/8

42%

47

43 Va

.

•'

.

33%
84%

33%

35%

36%

45%
43
'

-'

w

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69%

70
107%

73

78

104/

'

73 V2
103'/a

75
104%

103%

105

78

74

104%

103%

34% " 40%

105
40%

92%

96

24

25%

28%

31%

30

33%

10%

12%

11%

16%

90

93

90%

94

93

23%

26%

30%

8%

11%

27% : 31%
9%
11%
85

^

28%

28%

8%

10%

10

11%

*
^—20

83%

86

86

/

27'A. 31%

—1

87

31%

31%

8%

30

'

—5

32%

—1

19%

17'A

*

10%

13%

97%

99'A

31
6"%
16%

.

13

'

—

' 13%

100

(P W>—-10

,

—

15%

"

—;v.

15%

90

26

25

27'/a

-•

44Va \:

40%

39%
84%

48%

82%

87

46%
85%

*

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; - -V

w"./.

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;

104

100%

101

100

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1

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84

84Va

87

.

13%

' 77

84%

103%

16%

35Va
14%

15%

37%

issued.

.

12%

90

90

x87%

33%

34%

/ 7%

10%

33%
8

21%

26%

22

26%

13%

13%

15%

13%

16

'

13%

100%

100%

lOiya

9

26%

■v

105'A

99 Va

28 Va

36%

36

15%

13%

36%

327/a

13%

15%

131/4

88%

90

87%

89 •'.-•■.

33%

34%

33%

35

"

•

100

99%

-

103%

99

■

15

90

35

/•

11

10

12

22Va

|Z 19%

22

21 Va

23%

16%

"".16%

197/a

18%
14%

100%

99%

87 Va

35

16%

V

18

93

9V»

24

99%

100%

21% "

47Va

.14%
34

•vy;/.

15%
101 ,

31%

39

15%

" 87%

9%

9

47%

101%

28

43 Va

34%

8%

7% /.

107

100

102%

26Va

32%

w—.*

«—"•

27%

103

26 ••";

34%
8%
25%

7%
22%

34

"

15%
90

34

34%
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6%

.

100,

,

17%

19%

101

101%

101%

377/8
46%

n

A-'v'

28

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16%
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15%

17

31

16

27%
42%

30%

30

31

30%

33 Va

31%

37

34%

36%

47

46

48%

47%

49%

47%

50%

49

53%

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18%

133%

,46%

43%

25

'

6'A

r

86 /"

90

93

94

: 69%

74%

70

157A
38%
16%

14%
35%
14%

15%
41%
16%

16%
35%

•40'A

,

49
87

ilO

20

' 24
42
7

36%

5%
Cash

sale,

x

91%

.

89

.

133%

18Ve
136

19%

20%

136

136

20

21%

22

f—1 CO OO «"•

137

138%

60

.56%
'

63 '

'/

68

60%

70

59'/a
9 7'A

100

92

97%

98

100%

95

98

91%

99%

110

91

93

91%

92'/a

93

80 Va

88

80Va

86

85%

95%

88

97%

77

72%

78'/a

77

81

80%

84

79%

82

79

82

20%

.

93
93

16%

18%

17%

19%

18%

19%

19%

20%

20

23%

96%
941/2

100

,

r

36 Va

41%

41%

571/4

52%

46%

43%

46%

44%

18

16'A

18%

18

19%

18%

24%

22

243/a

21%

24%

21%

/

23%

21%

25%

24%

27%

25%

27%

27

29%

27%

31%

?62""'

60 V*

66'A

70%

491/4

35%

54

52%

107%

105%

106

44%

'

'

y

24%

26%

41%

37%

41%

39Va

441/2

11 Va

10%

12%

10%

12%

27%

,

23%

27%

34%

39

36%

39%

"37%

10%

9%

'

61'/a

25%

9 Va

10%

10%

11

10%

341/4

V

64%
26

106 A

26%

24%

47%

24%

60%
•v"

105%

23

37%

106

22%

Ex-dividend,

r/55./;-

58%

88%
92 Va

.

15%

.

21
; 24Va
44%
50%,
106% 108%
21 24%
37% 41%
6
9%

24%
50%

43%

107

7%

distributed,

53%

90

72%

13%
20Va

40,
* 47%
107% 109'
22 -24%
40 /
42

e%

w-d When

40

52

56%.

59%
90

1 86
94%
87%

14
34%

16%

" 21%

40%

; 53/4

16%

25"

23%

71

—

54

84
69%

74"

13V4

'

Zonite Products Corp—————1

99%'

71/

Young (L A) Spring 4b Wire—
•
19%
22%
Youngstown Sheet 4T Tube/—39%
43
5%ft preferred series
-100 'if 105%-109%
Youngstown Steel Door—>20%
22%
—•

31%

.

90

.

20%/, 24%

33
7%

.

16^ 21%

88
89%

x85

35

32%

York Corp ———!—i

28%
13%

".'96".;

"96%
25 .
29%
34%

96

42% "41%
100% " 98

88

70

-

72

13

: 24%

'

42%

14%

70

5

X23%

17%

25%

41%

41

12%

31
7

'

.

—

*

32%

104%

36%
93%;

•'

130

42%

Worthington Pump 4$ Machine Corp
v
(Del.) common
• f ! 38
Prior preferred 4%ft» series—100
79
Prior preferred 4%ft conv series_100
80
Wright Aeronautical Corp—
*
75 ',

'

11% 14
99Va 100%

^

16%

130

128

22%
40%

19

14%.
98% 100 . "

.

15

128

10

*

—

86 %
34%
8%
18%

84

8Ya

7%
17%

39%

.

103%

96%
24%

95%
25

33

38

75%

_

102%

43

89%

32%

75%

104%

I 36%

36

22%

w-i When

30%

321/4

'

—.——^10

value,

30%

36

35 Va

30%
29%

„

Preferred called—i—ui———

par

35

33%

V''/.

32%

41%"

24%

Zenith Radio -Corp—-

30%

33%

31%

.93'A

Wrigley (Wm) Jr Co (Del)'—
Wyandotte Worsted Co—.—

28 Va

33%

88%

——

-

-

113%

64
104%

6ft; preferred—-—;;

.

56

36 V.

22%

pfd

49Va

46%

94%

Woodward Iron"CO—

50

32%

26%

Wisconsin Elec Power Co 6ft

46%

36%

88%

Wilson-Jones Co

48

32%

22%

—

30

.

36

90'%

Wilson & Co——

89%

33%

22%

Willys-Overland. Motors—

87

49%

36%

21%

Prior preferred
Wilcox Oil Co——

87%

;

34

(The SS)——20
"
1

preferred—.

51 -ZZ

84%

28%

49%

27%

46

89

27

45%

—

3%

61

43 Va

90

31%

.

.

34%

Machine—i—

27

9%

":•>.

131% 135%

31-%
87%

preferred

19%

•'

.

81

39

45%; -57.%
81

.92

49

8% "10%
28
.23%
44'A
49%

9%

7

24%

50%

477/a

i

11%

;

:/, 46

'

'

53%

84Va

»
»

prior

9

37%

43%

=

85%

44%

106% 108

100

Wheeling Steel Corp—-———

:

30%

—

White Dental Mfg Co
White Motor—

7% "

77%

73%

35%

28%

preferred —————
$3.75 preferred
Wheeling & Lake Erie Ry Co.:
—100
convertible

•

39%
IV*
23%
78
49'A
29%

66%

,

32%

$4.25

Woolworth

110%

19%

—

—12.50

Instrument

$4.50 preferred—Ho

•No

18%
41

13

31

.

*

-

Electric

Westvaco Chlorine Products—

$4

73%

16.
35%

86

48%
28%

—

—

$5

76

69

16%

13%

71%.

Westinghouse Electric & Mfg Co—.—50
115% 1247% *119% 125
120
129%
7ft 1st par tic preferred
50
-144% 151
144
,146%
146% 150 •
Westinghouse:/Elec <?orp—
-—_50. •
—
:—*
/—,- '
' ^
Preferred
12%
■>
—«.i-/:

5%ft

72%

78

70%
35%

108%

108

105

105% 108%

71

64.

.15%
"34

15%
34%

19%

36%
5Va
16%
: 33%
73'

41

5

16%

44 %
26%

—————————

Westinghouse Air Brake Co

36%

/ 30%
38
64% ' 73%

———100
Union Telegraph class A—*

Preferred series A

Weston

15%;

<

91%

17%

/.-/'

.

70'

67%
-.14%

31%

"

31%

3

10

Co

Western Pacific RR <Co common——*
Western

26%

109

'

««

Z-15.

74%

V71 ZZ

15%

—

Auto Supply

Western Maryland Ry Co—

4ft

106

1

71

%

19%

28.
85
87
23%
27%
103 s 106
111
115
104
106%
116% 1173A
22%
26%
109
111

28%

*

Preferred

173

12%

20

'

100

Western Air Lines Inc..

173

76

25%

,

pfd

4%%

169 i/a

13%

102%

Co

169%

160?

53%

19%

lOOVa

Power

165

75%'

•

Virginia Pulp & Paper Co

West

165

12%

27%

West Penn

163%

19

24
84%
25%

109% 113%

162

70%

9%
25%

—-100

155

12%

10%

preferred——
preferred—

42

151'/a

1

20%

9%
26%
84%

150

70%

10%

27%

150

154

83

"

' 9%

85'%

40

19%

33%# 39

-•

150

158

/—

35

48%

43%

10%

24%

Corp——

154

163

;

75

55

41

39%

37%

40

75%

51

64

39%

Sugar

38%

42 /

>75%

11%

21%

Indies

'

76%

54

40%

52

40

41%

75

53%

38%

73

10%

35'A

♦.
*
—1

72%

50%

65% "70%
20
/
19%

35'/8

/'

73
50%

160

.158

134% 155 /

.

__

25%

65
48

11%

■

32%

W40%

41%

76

49%

19%

'• —"
/' ; —
15% • ' 13
35%
30

v/ —

38%

73

47%

"76
;Z 49

46

10%

23

—_:

High

$ per Share

19%

30%

West Penn Electric Co class A

./

66%

/ /_///"/w■

••

December
Low

High

S per Share

9%

.

""33%" 34%

'_5

Low

High

$ per Share

19%

11%

'"Z/Z-J •■•"'• -"
13%
14% ' 13%

"71

471/4

.

,,21%

Inc

November

October

Low

High

$ per Share

U

1

Tobacco

Low

High

$ per Share

20

26

Wesson Oil & SnowdrKt—
$4 convertible preferred

6%

2%

"

Motor Co—————————5

Waukesha

7%

11%

24%

Wayne,Pump Co—*

West

20%

*

—*

Low

High

$ per Share

109%

9%.
1%
2% •
1% ■
63/2 /66% Zz 61

.

September

August

July
low

High

$ per Share

9%

61%

68%

19%

11%

/• //--"■•■/—

June

"Low

19'A

64

10%

45%

31%
34%
108% /109 y 110%
66
.62%
72

107

106% 108

5

—

,

Washington Gas Light Co——

Webster

33%

9%
1%
57%

—.15

:

Foundry & Pipe
Petroleum Corp

3lVa

10%

100

'';/'■

"r.75

"72

.

10%

—50
-1

'

Warren

•

8%

*.

——————

Baking

5%ft

147
73%
16V4
31%
33

,J»

preferred———!.

$7
Ward

122

147
67%
14%

70%
15

68%-

.

1

_

Baking Co class A_;

Class- B

.

preferred—?

1

Walworth Co

122.

32%
106% 108
' 63
67%
'19% 20

•

./ Dividend redeemable

/:
38%
48

37%
,

66 13%
30Va

—100

O & W ltd-,

preferred

Walker (Hiram)

;

- ■

High

$ per Share

75
70
75 "
45%
47%
45%
47%
38%, 39% x38%
39%
120
127
130
134 "
145 ;• 147%
—70 '
76%
66%
71%
14%
16% " 14%
16

75

45%

—

.

low

low
High
§ per Share

•>

59%

: •

-25

—

Detinning

\"
57
61
45%
46
36%
38,
121
123

-

25

May

;'•/•

April

High
$ per Share

Low

Low

<

1

—100

-

March

High
$ per Share

High

$ per Share

Virginia Iron Coal & Coke—
5ft
preferred-—
Virginian Ry Co
"6ft

February '">/

'^

•

Ex-rights

NEW YORK BOND RECORD
January
low
High

•

BONDS

.

March

February
low
High

low

June

-

low

High

New. York City Bonds
Transit Unification Issues—»

3s

112% 115%

corporate, ;$tocki^—i.-—1980
'

; •

'

"J^\'4

Foreign Government Securities

Agricultural Mortgage Bank—
Guaranteed sinking fund 6s

(f-,'

115

36%

61

'62%

80

;

External S

f

7s

series B^——1945 :

External

s

f

7s

'serifes C_

External

s

f

7s

series D

External

7s

>

—

/ - .35:,

_

1945
1945

34

"30.

31

'/

31%

91

89

y 86

•100% 102%

101

fund 4s——Apr 1972
July 15 1955

,

90%
99%

External 5s of 1927
-June 1957
4%s of 1928——.1956

100

External gold

extl 6%S—1949

%

:

95%'

94%

97

,

95

v

101%

94%

102%;

100

101

96%

97%

,

.

101

95%

102%

102%

106

105 7/8

102

103

105

104

"

107

96%

99%

99%

103

100%

101 Va

102

'?

100%

External
'

s

pursuant to Plan A
(interest reduced to 3.375%) 1979
Cent Ry 30-year 7s
——1952
Stamped pursuant to Plan A
(interest reduced to 3.5%)—1978
5% funding bonds of 1931
Stamped pursuant to Plan A"v"
"" /.
Int reduced to 3.75%—1979

58%.:

52

52

57%

52

59%

60

•./

66%

:

;-/y

58

59%

62

65%
58

64%
•,57./.'

60

58%:

58%

52

'/

»

60%

"60

53

57%

f 6%s of 1926—A—1957

Stamped pursuant to Plan A
'■>,
(interest reduced to 3.375 %) 1979
External s f 6%s of 1927
-—1957

60%/

>

''57

:

/

62

65.rZ.Z-

64

66'/a
59

60

57

64%

30%

32

30

31%

31%

30

31%

>%t
.

&

101%

102%

100

101%

99%

96

98%

64

/ 62

31%

30

—

'

102

:

101%

100%

96

99

107

30%

99%

96%

„

94%

.

98%

100

115

71

115

102%

100%

101

100% 101%

99%

101

101

102

102

96%

961%

99

97

100

98

98%

97: -:

99%

98%

101

'3

68

For

footnotes see page




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"/ 57

56%

601/a

94%

96%

104%

106%

IO51/4

107%

106%

107%

106%

107

102

103%

;102%

103%

103

104Va

103%

1041/2

103

104

99

100%

101

lOOVa

102%

101%

102%

101% 102

104%

106

106

99%
104 Va

104

106-

107 " 107

107

102%

102 Va

102 Va

102

102%

102 Va

102 i/a

1021/4

103 vv

102%

103

107%

108%

109%

108

108

108

109

110%

110%

110'%

110%

71%

72%

71%

69%

6.91/4

68%

70 V2

60

010.0
61%

69%

60%

73

/

65

70%

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THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number 4460

NEW YORK BOND RECORD
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105

125%

—

101

100

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102%

1083/4

—

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105

106

106

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104

98 y4

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91%

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101

97

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99

96

91%

.

103%

107%

98

97

95

—

103%

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92

97

106

106

—

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108 i/a

104

106 y4

106%

101%

•

109

1977

refunding mortgage 3s
refunding mortgage 5s

32

138

130

1966

1st 4s

—

__

—

100

106

105%

92

——

"

— —

—

128

•

105%

lOOto

105

57

57%

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87

80

66

57

70

60%

62

51%

63

52%

57

-

90

86%

89

943A

deb 4s

Securities

133%

1M54

JLKJO /8

1223/4

106

Public Service Elec & Gas 3y48—.1968
1st

106%

1073/4

123%

IO31/4

3'As

Power

Providence Terminal

1st

107%

1071/a

128%

1960

1st mortgage 3y4s
Pressed Steel Car 5s__.
Providence

107%

107%

127

'

1950

Electric

107%

107%

121%

—1964

5 Va s—

extended

107 »/e

1073A

126

•

1950

B_

Portland General Elec 1st 4%s
5s

108%

107%

124%

131 to

Pittsburgh & West Va; 1st 4%s
1958
1st mortgage 4%s series B
..1959
1st mortgage 4V2s series C
..I960
Pitts Youngs & Ash 1st gen 4s A.1948
1st general 5s series B
1962

Potomac

107%

108

122

105%

mortgage 5s series A

Co

108%

1073/4

•

General mortgage •'is

Pittston

1073/4

108

1243/4

-

,

series

108%

108

122%

104

mtge. 6s inc..:.—.
—1964
Philip Morris Ltd debenture 3s_..1963
3s debentures
—1963
Philippine Ry 1st 30-yr s f 4s
1937
Certificates of deposit
Phillips Petroleum 2%s.——
._1964
Pittsburgh Cinn Chic & St Louis—* ,
Cons gtd gold 4s series D
1945
" Cons gtd gold 3%s
series ;E—Uil949
Cons gtd gold 4s series F——1953 !
Cons gtd gold 4s series G...
1957
Cons gtd gold 4s series/ H____..I960
Cons gtd gold 4%s series I.
1963
Cons gtd gold 4%s series J
1964

1970
series B
1975
General Mtge 3%s series "E"—1975
Pgh Coke & Chem 3y2S—
1964
Pittsburgh Consol Coal 3y2s debs__ 1965
Pittsburgh Steel 4y2a
—
1950

106%
103

125%

99%

..1949

6s

104

101%

108

•

gold 4y2s series C

1041/4

102

124%

104%

General

4V2s

106

118%

.106%

—1961
mtge 2%s—1971
1st & ref mortgage 2%s
1967
1st & refunding 2%s„
_1974
Phila & Reading Coal & Iron—
Refunding 5s stamped—
.1973

General

106

126%

79to

Philadelphia Co 45/4s
Phila Electric 1st ref

\

112 V,

106

104%

—

....1974
—1977

General 5s series B——

•

132

111

126

Phila Bait & Wash-

Convertible

122

112%

127

108 to

....

General

130

108% *
108% 108%

108 3/8

108%

108 i/a

118%

Peoples Gas Light & Coke 5s
.1947
Peoria & Eastern 4s extended—1960
————

108%

107%

103%

E—-

SVas series F-',

107%

103

1981
—1984
Convertible debenture 3y4s——1952
General 4 %s series

income 4s

105

101%

118 to

.1970

gold 4% S—L.

General 4 % s series D_—

Gen mtge

105

-

104

-

Debenture

—

1960

debs_»

Co.—

Pennsylvania Glass Sand 3y2s
Pa Ohio

107%

107%

117

series C—1966
4y2s
1955
1960
& Passaic Gas & Elec 5s_1949

106%

108%

107

109

106%

105% 108

105%

107

108%

109

108%

106i/2

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to

106

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107 to

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105 to 107%
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,

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105%

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3'/2s conv inc

26 to

23

104% 105%

100

103to

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,

27%
105%

103 to

104%

Panhandle Eastern P L 3s

Pennsylvania

24 to
104 to

lOOto

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103"%

104%,

105

J

Pacific Tel & Tel 3V4S series

Paterson

23 to

104%
100:

High

103%

1970
series Kj—1971 \
& reftmding 3s series L_——1974
<fc ref mtge 3S series M..
1979
& ref mtge 3s series N
.—1977-

1st

27W.v30%!

28

October
Low High

September
Low

105

gtd cons 5s stamped.
-1946
Oregon-Wash RR & Nav 3s ser A-1960
Pacific Coast Co 1st 5s—
__1946
Pacific Gas & Electric 4s ser G—1964 ;
1st & refunding 3%s series I.—1966
3s

,

v,

1st

series

High

101%

101%

Transmission 1st 5s——.1945

34 >A

106i/4

&
August
Low High

July
Low
High

■-

108

105 to

•■•

■

Oregon RR & Nav cons gold 4sL—1946 /
Oregon Short Line RR 1st cons 5s_1946

3s

107%

106 to

June

Low

ioo%

104 to

106

I04to

1975 v

———

Ontario

26%
108 i/a

105%

28

803%; 105% " 105

*

24

22%
1073/4

106

108%

108%

108

-

109 to

20 to

29

243/4

,

May
Low
High

April
Low
High

-\!

■

High

Low

High

Low

High

„

1st mortgage 2%s_————-1975
Oklahoma Gas & Electric 3%s
1966
.

March

February

January

1083A

107 Vo

107%

160

160

—

„

—

245

237

241

102 i/a

102%

102%

245

102%

__

1st & refunding mortgage 8s
2037
Quaker Oats 2%s debentures
1964
Reading Co Jersey Central coll 4S.1951

224%

224%

245

245

lOOto

lOOto

100%

101

101%

101%

101%

101%

101%

101%

101%

101%

101%

102%

102

102%

102%

104%

103 to

1051/4

104to

105to

105 to

107 to

106%

107%

106to

106%

106%

106%

106

106

106

General & refunding 4 %s ser A.1997
General & refunding 4y2s ser B.1997

106 to

107to

106

1071/a

105 to

106%

105 to

105%

105 to

105 to

107%

1071/4 107%

1071/2

107%

106%

106%

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106

107

107

107%

106 to

107

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103
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103
107%

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104

103%

104

107%

106

109 Vb

1073/a

108%

74

77%

77%

-■■■

s:

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1955

230'/a 230%

1061/2

107 to

106

107

105%

106%

105%

107%

107%

107 Y*

106%

107%

106%

107 to

A

106 to

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Saratoga—
(4.7 for 1945).
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...1975

....

Rio

Grande Western

I960

1st gold

1st cons & coll trust 4s
Rochester Gas & Elec—

y

4s„1939

A—1949

ser

1041/4 107%
105

98%
71

106%

107%

105%

103%

1051/4

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101%

98 y8

101

101%

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77

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72

76%

107

107 to

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108

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103%

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103%

108

102

110

1071/4

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mortgage 3%s series H—1967
Gen mtge 2V2s series I
1967
General mortgage 3y4s series J..1969

1081/4 1081/4

108 to

Rock Island Ark & La 1st 4V2s

1934

51

58%

5iy4

1949

18%

21 to

16 v

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4%s stamped—..

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series

1941

A

1966

20
22%
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17to
104 to

108%

109

54

109

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21
26

20

19%

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24

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55

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gold 6s—
.1996
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109to
67

69%

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83

85

85

87

80

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79%

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1959

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stpd

1955

1950

St Louis-San Fran Ry 4s ser A

Prior lien 5s series B—

Certificates

..1950

of deposit.....—.^.

mortgage

4tos

1978

series A

Certificates of deposit stamped

St Louis Southwestern RR 1st 4s__1989
2nd
1st

gold

4s

terminal

inc
&

bond ctfs—Nov 1989

St Paul & Duluth
St Paul & Kan

St Paul Union

1st

con

page




103

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97

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100

56 to

99
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59

110

77%

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4s

,

99%

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—1952

City Sh L 1st 4y2S_1941
Depot 3tos "B"
1971

For footnotes see

92%

1021/8

ser A—1990

unifying 5s.

§ General & refunding 5s

100

1003/s 103

IOI1/4 102

+—<• ■■■■

48

Certificates of deposit

Cons

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95

1

96

92

91%

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■

Stamped 4s —
—.....1933
/ Certificates of deposit......

--

108 »/2

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105

105

90

80

—

—

—

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21%

23to, 28%.
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30

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:

„

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—

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1093/4
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71

110

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105%

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6t Lawrence & Adir; 1st gold 58.^.1996

1*09-

106

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108to

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107

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68

62

76

70

78 to

68%
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108to

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—

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105%

107%

101% 102%
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:

"

;

56%

Volume 163

Number 446CL

;

(THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

639

NEW YORK BOND RECORD
*

January
BONDS

Schenley Distillers
Scioto

Low

4s

..>1952

—

February
Low

High

104'A

106

March

High

103'A

Low

105

105

Stamped

May
Low
High

April :
High

87 3A;

96

June

-

Low

105%

104%

105%

131%

131%

133

Certificates of deposit
Refunding 4s

October

September

August

110

Low

Low

Low

102'A

High

High

91

96%

96%

io/

108

111

111%

89'/8

89%

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108

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43%.

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45

49%

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& consolidated 6s series A..1945
Ctfs of dep (Guaranty Trust)
:

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44

40'A

44'A

43%

45%

45'A

46%

50%

47%

53'A

60 3A

55%

60

59

64%

61

62

68%

64

68%

65%

52 3A

60

54%

59%

58%

63%

60%

Ctfs of deposit (Chemical Bk)
Atlanta & Birmingham 1st 4s
1933
Certificates of deposit.

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60%

55'A

59%

59%

63%

61

78'A

84

81

84

87'A

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87

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81

83

86

86

86

88

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1954

..

•

.

2%s sinking fund debentures_„_1961
Silesian American 7s
.1941

g| Simmons Co debenture 4s_*
IJ Sioux City & Pacific—See Chic

1952

50%

.52

51%

53%

55

57

52%

51%

54%

53

57%

69

67%

72

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1963

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1979

108

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debentures
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1969
;

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1981

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84%

85

79%

79%

80%

85

85%

85%

19

23%

21%

253A

24'A

31%

20

24%

24 3/a

233/4

30

1971

105%

106%

106

1043/4

105%

105%

105%

104

117%
86%

,

35

273/4

29%

.

-

33

32

.

35%

1083/4

106'A 108%

109%

109%

110'A

105'A

106

105'A

106'A

104%

106'/a

104%

105%

104 a3a

104 &

104 3la

104 &

...

tOdd lot sale.

rCash sale.

38'A

32

'

32'/a

35%

107%

107%

107

108

107

107

109

108
109

108%

Youngstown Sheet & Tube—
1st mortgage 3'As "D"_
Called bonds (May 1, 1945)

102U

117%

20
106

102

105%

1970

,

I-.,: Wilson & Co 3S......_..^..._.i..l958 ■'

delivery

102

101%

108%

1023/g

Deferred

101

100'A
102%

98%

78%

a

95

101%

107%

107%

101%

Public

!

106/%
107'/a

107'A

Wisconsin

91%

--

106%

1063A

.

—

105'/a

117%

105%
1013/4

;

—

105'A
102

105%

Electric

95

100%

103%

107%

106

Wisconsin

70%

1173/4

105%

Gen & ref 2%s series A

70

102

105'A

Shore 1st 4s guaranteed....2361
Registered
2361
Wheeling & L Erie 1st cons g 4s__1949

"I

71

107'A

105

1951

—

I"

64%

64

102

107

Certificates of

92%

1003/4

100% 101%

102

117%

1073/4

Central

101'/a

106%

107

Wisconsin

1023/4

1173/4

98%

1st

993A

87

100% 101%

117%

117%

107%

B

94

89'A

101'A

106%

117%

92%

Winston-Salem S

99%

87%

"I
60

106%

West

I-

93

100'/a

100

100

4'As A_2014

5s

30-year 5s
;__1960
Westinghouse Elec & Mfg 2'As____1951

|-

*

West Union Tele fund & R E 4'As_1950
Gold

99'/a 100
89'A

87

99% 105 5A

■

—1955

ref gtd

West Pacific RR gen mtge

1013A

(sub)..1970

West Penn Power 3'As series I_.__.1966
1st

}

94

89%

1971

3%s_

1st &

90

84'A

3'As
2000
Washington Cent Ry 1st gold 4s__1948
Washington Terminal—
1st mtge 2%s scries A
—1970
Westchester Ltg 5s stamped gtd
1950
General mortgage 3'As
1967
West

101%

1981
1991

B_

109

109

873A

109

104%

*105'A

104% 105%

84

78

83%

81'A

80%
30'A

29'A

42

40%
39'/a
106

86
-

493/4
423A
106%

104% 105'A

82'A

91

ii%

89%

40

471/4

3?%

40

v-

39

39%

39%

39

106 y8

106'A

107

107'A

108'A

108%

108%

108%

;

:

Thursday, January 31, 1946

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE
COURSE OF PRICES OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES FOR THE YEAR 1945
sales made

(Compiled from

the

at

New

York

Stock

Exchange.

~

•

represent

••

one

32ds of

more

or

point)

a

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<

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■

r

v;-/!

close-*.

■k

103.27

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■

100.17

100.15

100.22

101.4

101.3

100.18

100.17

100.15!

100.10

100.22

101.4

101.1

101.1

113.11

112.10

:

.

113.2

112.21

100.10

100.18

107.8

113.11

112.23
112.21

112.10

w

103.25

107.4

107.4

112.23

112.10
112.10

r

,;v»-.:vt

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103.27

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—-7

107.8

113.2

:•?

101.3

■;

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■

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101.19
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113,7

113.17

101.11

106.11

110.15

113.7

113.17

106.6

101.11

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107.14-

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101.11

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101.1

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111.27

113.21

101.12

113.25

101.1

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162.26

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.

101.3

101.14

101.20

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101.14

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100.30

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101.16

101.7

101.4;

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101.2

101.1

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107.7

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101.22

101.11

101.1

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105.16.

109.23

114.19

107.7

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105.16

109.25

114.19

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107.1

107.25

102:12

100.18

105.14

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107.25

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102.1

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102.4

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•

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114.12

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114.12

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100.6

112.17

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,

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103.27

100.6

112.17

102.4

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103.27

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.

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112.30

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101.19

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106.28

105.24

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101.26

101.13

101.18

102.29

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101.26

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102.29

102.5

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102.17
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101.9

101.26.

102.10

101.20

101.11

101.14

102.26

102.10

101.20

101.25

101.27:

101.26

102.10

101.20

101,11

101.13

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102.10

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101.25

101.23

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102.15

102.5

102.9

102.15

102.9

102.9

102.15

101.3

102.3

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102.15

102.9

102.4

102.4

101.21

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107.26

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102.2
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107.26

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101.8

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100.28

101.11.:

101.29
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100.13

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101.29

104.24

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100.25

104.24

104.24

2s & • 2s- •1%S
1948

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1952-54 1962-54 1953-55
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103.6

103.13

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103.11:

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103.7

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103.23

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103.30

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;

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f Opening.!..,

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Volume 163^

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number 4460

64!

and

municipal construction, $56,356,000, is-283 % greater, than last
and Public construction $93,172,000 is 67% greater than last
year.-:The Federal cumulative figure for 1946, $36,816,000 registered
a ,10% decrease below the 1945
figure.

Wholesale Prices Unchanged in Week Ended
Jan. 19 Labor Department Reports

Civil

"Average primary market prices remained unchanged during
the week ended Jan. 19, 1946, as lower prices for agricultural com*

"At

of the

106.7%

1926

.

'

(Indexes for the last eight weeks are

A

All

(

Textile
Fuel

'

Short sales—. 'a

12-22

1-20

1945

1945

106.7

106.8

106.8

104.8??. O

—0.1

131.5

126.6

—0.5

—1.7

107.3 U107.6
119.4 119.4
101.1
101.0
85.5
85.5

108.0

105.0

—0.3

—1.2

+ 2.2

i

*

products!

products
lighting materials:
metal products^—._

105.4
Building materials
119.8
Chemicals and allied products—
96.1
Housefurnishing goods—106.6
and

95.0

Miscellaneous commodities

,

108.6
*

119.4

11.9.4

100.6

99.0

85.2

105.3

11°.2

119.1

83.9

105.3

96.1
106.4

96.1

96.1

106.1

95.0

95.0

94.0

115.8

85.0

+

0.4

0.2

+ 1.2

0.8

+ 2.7
+

0.2

+ 0.5
+

+

+

0
—0.3

Short sales—

Total purchases
Short sales—

———

118.7

119.0

119.7

96.9

96.9

96.9

96.9

102.9

102.8

102.6

102.6

101.6

+

101,7

101.5

101.4

101.3

100.0

+0.2

100.8

100.7

100.6

100,5

99.3

+0.1

+0.3

products

———

0.1

+

0.3

+ 1.3

+0.4

+ 1.7

+

i.

'

v

NYSE Odd-Lot Trading

22,510

The Securities and Exchange
Commission made public on Jan.

4.08

256,293

Total—
876.226

Total purchases
Short sales.—

All commodities other than farm

products

190,796

233,783

—

Total sales

+ 1.5

Manufactured

floor-

....

tOther sales—-—

2.2

0

0

94.8

•

2.04

115,930

Other transactions initiated off the

+ 2.5

—0.9

—

1.1

Semi-manufactured articles——

materials

6,900
109,030

—

Total sales.

S.

1.3

119.8

Raw

107,800

—

tOther sales

+ 1.9

0.1

O
+

initiated on the floor-

2.1

0

+ 0.5

94.9

106.4

•

10.30

551,340

Total sales.

1.3

+

0

0

106.4

+

+

0

116.7

118.8

0

0.1

104.2.

85.2

105.4

+

577.630

1945

+ 0.5

0

117.9

100.6

•

488,900

f. Other transactions
Total purchases

23, a summary for the week
ended Jan. 12 of complete figures
showing the daily volume of stock
transactions for odd-lot account
of all odd-lot dealers and special¬

91,850

831,713

tOther sales———*————...

All commodities other than farm

products and foods

:—***

PERCENTAGE CHANGES IN SUBGROUP

'

JAN.

12, 1946 TO JAN. 19,
Increases

Lumber

—

—.

Products

Dairy

•'•'
Foods

Cotton Goods

Fruits and Vegetables*—.——,;**—.—;

1.0

Other

Farm

k.

0.2

>':v

}:'■")«&; Decreases

——1.3

"

Sales

Transactions

for

Curb Exchange
Account of Members*. (Shares)

on

the

York

New

'

—

;

0.1

.-.V.;';

S. Other transactions Initiated

$I0I;433,0C0 for Wesk

Short.sales—

,

on

4.

Private, construction total of $64,234,000 for. the* current week is

1760%

over

a

'>

/

-

Customers' short sales

other

sales—.

45,652

Customers'

.13

total

sales

45,782

of

Shares:
sales

3,993

"Customers! other sales

1,296,641

Customers'

Dollar

short

total

Customers'

27.66

;

"

;

Total sales-—-.

0
78,448

'

Short sales

•••.,;

;79,598

•The term' •'members" includes all regul&r and. associate Exchange: inen»be*ri,: their
Irms arid their partners. Including special partners.
••" - •
„
:ompa'red with twice the total round-lot volume on the Exchange' for the- reason tnay
"he Exchange volume includes only sale**.'?
V-'
tin calculating these percentages the.total at members' purchases and
sales Is
.Round-lot short sales which are exempted from restriction by the Commission's
.tales."sre" included: with; "other-sales."
■*, » ,
.
' ^
' V - - j ..
' '1
:

—

—

~

-

v

/,

JSales marked "shorfr exempt" are

.included.4trlth "othex saIes.n

•_

.•

110

223,480

—

>

—

Round-Lot Purchases by DealersNumber of shares.
?' "Sales- marked ."short

exempt

223,590
527,950
are

re-

ported with "other sales."

4,

j

L300.634

$54,272,897

78,448

.

a

sales

value_._

Round-Lot Sales by Dealers-^*
Number of Shares:

Total sales
-

ft

130

Customers' short sales

tOther sales

the week last year. Federal construction, $23,364,000, rec¬
increase over the previous week and a 327% increase




i——

,r

Number

296,310

Total purchases^——

the

"•■V- On

•

18,500

Total sales.

53,324

1,606.068
$66,209,347

—

■^Customers'

277,810

we

!Cu8tomers' other sales—

.

519%

corresponding week of last year.
four-week, cumulative-basis, the total for 1946, $278,080,000
is 215% greater than the $88,193,000 recorded for,the same period
last year. " The current-cumulative total for private construction is
$184,908,000 and is 471% greater than the period last year.
State

over

tOther sales.

J. Odd-Lot Transactions for Account of Specialists^

499% greater than the 1945 week.: State and municipal construction
total for the current week $13,835 000, is 19% over last week and
ords

+

•

•

•400,000); The private construction total for the week is. also 111%
greater than last week and soars to 2,397%. over the week last year.
Public construction, $37,199,000 is 148% greater than last week and

!

For Week

Number of Orders: ?
V

83,880

Short sales.—
r

value_^_

i

Odd-Lot Purchases by Dealer*—
vV
(Customers' sales!

258,725

~

the third highest total reported since the week of Oct. 17, 1940.
(It
is topped only by Sept. 27, 1945, $69,200,000; and Nov. 1, 1945, $67,-

'

2.22

Total
Total purchases——*

;
"

Total:

shares

80,780

Total sales.

Jan. 24 went

V

Y

orders—

of

3,100

tOther sales.

.

The report made public

of

Number

59,170

-_r

N.

1946

l^CustpmetsVpuTchases)

Number

I. Other transactions initiated off the floor-

ported^since ~ the rweek ': of June 31943. { The current week's 'total
•/ is 124% greater than the previous week and 1,054% greater than thy
to say: ,A.h

■;?

31,975

.J———

Total sales.

THE

EXCHANGE

400

a

Total purchases-. 1T;

ON

Week Ended Jan. 12,
Odd-Lot Sales by Dealers—

Dollar

than the previous four-week moving average and is the highest re¬

•

SPECIALISTS

31,575

I

tOther sales

18.31

12,645

—

Short sales—

engineering construction volume in continental United
States totals $101,433,000. for the week ending Jan. 24, 1946, as re¬
ported to "Engineering News-Record." This volume is 46% greater

on

AND

the: floor-

Total purchases
r*

Civil

corresponding week of. 1945.

on

DEALER#

LOT ACCOUNT OF ODD-LOT

180,455

Total sales—•

ODd.

STOCK TRANSACTIONS FOR THE

15,000

165,455

STOCK

Engineering Construction Totals
:

?

reports filed with the Commis¬
sion by the odd-lot dealers and
specialists.
<

186,910

tOther sales———

Civil

sion. The figures are based upon

Account of Members:

they Are registerea— {
1
■
Total purchases—*—..
*
.
.Short sales.—.

■'V:'

con¬

tinuing a series of current figures
being published by the Commis¬

24,240

1,982,225

1. Transactions of specialists in stocks in which

1.0

the

on

New York Stock Exchange,

2,006.435

3. Round-Lot Transactions for

•—

ists who handled odd lots

Total for Week

————

Total sales

—

and Stock

1946

;

Short sales.
tOther sales..

0.1

'

*

5,

Total Round-Lot Sales:

0.2
-

Products.

Non-Ferrous Metals

Stock

WEEK ENDED JAN.

,-•■
,1.1
Petroleum and Products—
———1 0.3 Grains +L———
Livestock and Poultry——.——0.1

Furnishings

Other

1.5

1916 { ' 7:!;S'v'

16.42

923,563

Total sales.

Round-Lot

Total

INDEXES FROM

Spinning for Dec.!

on Jan. 22 that, accord¬
ing to preliminary figures,; 23"806,392 cotton spinning spindlqs
were in place in the United States
on Dec. 31,
1945, of which 21,551,960 were operated at some time
during the month, compared with
21,605,060 in November, 21,721,'-r
792
in
October,
21,911,746
in
September, 22,170,180 in: August,
and 22,212,432 in December 1944..
The aggregate number of active
spindle hours: reported for the
month was 7,732,919,207, an aver¬
age of 325 per spindle in place,
compared with 8,672,129,859, ah
average of 364 per spindle in place,
for last month and
8,760,582,052 an
average
of 397 per spindle in
place, December 1944.
Based on
an activity of 80 hours
per week,
cotton
spindles in the United
States were operated during De^
cember, 1945 at 101.5% capacity.
The percent, on the same activity
basis, was 104.6 for November,
105.0
for
October,
111.8, for
September, 100.5 for August, and
118.5 for December, 1944.

G2.440

+ 2.1

,

^

nounced

5,430,400

tOther sales

;

The Bureau of the Census; an¬

gxaept ?• ^tf^the-Odd-tot^^ccbuntaSofc^dd^^ot^®*^*
Dealers and Specialists:
4
1. Transactions of specialists In stocks in which
they are registered-—
+
,,,
tr'
Total purchases

—II

Cotton

Account of Members,

Round-Lot Transactions for

•

.

—:

5,363,9<o

Total sales.—————

.

t.

+1.8

131.3

1945

:

Co.

Round-Lot Stock

.

d

re-elected

was

American Can Co.; H. K. Taylor,
of George D; Ellis & Sons, Inc.?
and E. B. Webster, of Crown Can

»^^^

tother sales.~.: h;'m" yi''

■

a n

Heekin Can Co.; V. K. LeComte,
of LeComte & Co.; R. S. Solirisky,
of Cans, Inc.; J. A. Stewart,■» of

Jan. 23

{'/' .'

Total for Week

Total Round-Lot Sales:

I.

1-20

1-5
1946

and

Metals

12-22

1-12

1946

on

of Curb members of 463,310 shares

,

Vice-President
Sifton

ft.

1939.

re-elected

W. H. Funderburg, of Continental
Can Co.; D. M. Heekin, of thev

of 2,051,500 shares.

WEEK ENDED JAN. 5, 1946

.

in

nolf, of Continental Can Co.; TL
W. Figgis, of American Can Go.;:

.■•■•.+-ji

Commission made public

Jan. 19, 1946 from—

1-12

" i..l

Stock Sales on the New York Stock Exchange and
Transactions for Account of Members* (Shares)

Total Round-Lot

Percentage changes to

—129.3 ^ 130,0

——.

leather

and

11.29% of the total trading

was

-

106.7

products-

Foods
Hides

-f

1946

commodities

Farm

•

1-19

group—

?

n . n11 r • r ;i

.

:

'■

'r

.-

New York Exchanges

on

trading for the account

Dec. 29

^

:

1946

Commodity

..i. . ■] _;i.'

Institute

the

was

Qompany; C, H. Black, of Ameri¬

1,604,404 shares, or 16.51% of the total trading of 4,859,910 shares.
On the New York Curb Exchange, member trading during the week
ended Jan. 5 amounted to 555,635 shares or 27.66% of the total
volume on that Exchange of 2,006,465 shares.
During the week ended

"u.:.

f.-s •••

•>

'V?-

:

t

JAN. 19, 1946
--ft 9''' -; •
preliminary)'
^

..

of

formation
White

can Can
Co.; E. D. Murphy, of the
National Can CoFp,; C. C. Conway, :;
of Continental Can Co.; J. F. Ege-

with member trading during the week ended Dec. 29 of

compares

wholesale price data, for

WHOLESALE PRICES FOR WEEK ENDED
.-r• ^
ri926 = 100) -

.r

Can

Secretary and Treasurer. The new
board of Governors is composed
of R. Amundsen, of The Texas

figures. ddWh}-'
'
Trading oh the Stock Exchange for the account of members
(except odd-lot dealers) during the week ended Jam 5 (in roundlot transactions) totaled 1,179,789 shares, which amount was 16.42%
of the total transactions on the Exchange of 5,480,400 shares.
This

.

'

n ."J " HU-

re¬

the

Mr. Milton has been ah

Clifford

ing a series of current figures being published weekly by the Commis¬
sion.
Short sales are shown separately from other sales in these

'{with the monthly index.
-;
The following tables show (1) indexes for the past three weeks,
for Dec* 22, 1945 and Jan. 20 1945 and (2) percentage changes in
.subgroup indexes from Jan. 12, 1946 to Jan. 19, 1946. 1

■

orn

Executive

1946, figures showing the volume of total round-lot stock sales on the
Stock Exchange and the New York Curb Exchange and
volume of round-lot stock transactions for the account of, all
members of these exchanges in the week ended Jan. 5,1946, continu¬

the the most part, represent prices in primary markets,^ In general,
the prices are those charged by manufacturers or producers or are
those prevailing on commodity exchanges.
The weekly index is
calculated from one-day-a-week prices.
It is designed as an indi¬
cator of week to week changes and should not be compared directly

'

.M 1

been

of

Institute, {it; was
Jan. 14 by Gordon

member

its

Ferris

New York

,

£

active

the

5

...

'

The Securities arid Exchange

_

:dil..

" ,T 1 ',rr,r"""^'"

Trading

mid-January, 1945.
- .'.V
jr
"Other Commodities—Average prices for all commodities other
than farm products and foods rose 0.1% during the week.
Yellow
•pine lumber, prices were higher with increased ceilings granted by
QPA. Men's business shirts advanced fractionally following > re*
xnoval of CPA restrictions on use of materials.
Quotations for oil-,
cloth moved up following a 15% increase over October 1941 levels
allowed manufacturers to cover higher costs of materials and labor.
Part of this increase is to be absorbed by wholesalers.
Refinery
prices for gasoline in the mid-continent area rose following the com¬
petitive price reductions: of earlier weeks. Quotations for mercury
^declined.", di,
;
+
d.
The Labor Department included the following notation in the
•

Institute.
since

capital for construction purposes this week totals $33,996,000
$29,496,000 in State and municipal bond sales and
$4,500,000 in corporate security issues. New capital for the four weeks
of 1946 totals $234,778,000 and is 127% greater than the $103,217,000
reported for the corresponding period of 1945.
;{UJI'

has

Cole, Advertising Director for tne

announced

New

market prices for butter to ceiling levels in all important
^markets. Average prices for foods were 1.2% below four weeks

Note—The Bureau of Labor Statistics'

•

and is made; up of

r-'-

Y.,

744,000
5,471,000

3,774,000

gained over the week last year as follows: Waterworks, bridges,
highways, earthwork and drainage, industrial and commercial build¬
ings, and unclassified.
New Capital

mary

dm

14,987,000
11,213,000

Bridges, highways* earthwork; and drainage, public, industrial
and commercial buildings and unclassified.
Seven of the nine classes

:

N.

President

Manufacturers

lows:

largely responsible for: the decline of 0.3% in the group index for
foods.
In addition, rye flour moved down on slow demand.
Quota¬
tions for butter in New York and Chicago advanced, bringing pri¬

•

*.

elected

2,576,000
6,215,000

corded

products dropped 0.5% during the week, bringing the index for this
group to a level 1.7% below mid-December and 2.1% above the cor¬
responding week of last year. Quotations for eggs: were down more
than seasonally as supplies increased, with the price decline greater
for lower
qualities.; Prices for oranges moved down seasonally
and white potatoes were generally lower on slow demand for the
poorer qualities available.
Prices for apples and for onions moved
up,~reflecting short supplies of these commodities. - Quotations for
hogs rose on heavy demand by small packing plants.
Prices for
sheep were lower seasonally and live poultry quotations dropped
because of the poorer quality of birds available.
Rye prices moved
up on speculative buying.
"The lower prices for eggs and fruits and vegetables were

d:'-

37,199,000
13,835,000

_

Brooklyn,

$8,791,000

30,394,00D

In the classif ied construction groups, seven of the nine classes re¬
gains during the current week over the previous week as fol¬

'

•"report: ~

*

>

23,364,000

State and Municipal— J.

Jan. 25,'45

; $45,381,000

64,234,000

Public Construction

Federal

Jan. 17,'46

$101,433,000

—

George A. Milton, President of
the George A. Milton Can Co. of

.■*»?>•;:

;

.

Jan. 24,'46

.

Total U. S. Construction.—

prices in primary markets prepared by the Bureau was 0.1% below
a month ago and 1.8% above the corresponding week of 1945," says
the Bureau, which in its advices Jan. 24 further reported: ■ < ."Farm Products and Foods •— Average market prices for farm

{ago and 2.2% above

;

L •

„

Private Construction

the index of commodity

average,

are:

'

by. higher prices for some industrial goods,"
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, TJ. S. Department -of
Labor.

engineering construction volume for the current week, last-

week and the 1945 week

modities were offset

•

Milfon Again Heads
Can, Mfrs. Institute

year

•

tSales to offset customers' odd-lot order

and sales to

liquidate

is less than

a

"other sales."

round

a

long position whicl

lot

are

reported

wit!

\
THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

642

Thursday, January 31, i 946

'

'

I

Weekly Coal and Coke Production Statistics

Daily Average Crude Oil Production for Week
Ended Jan. 19,1846 Increased 35,200 Barrels
Petroleum

American

The

that the

estimates

Institute

suggestions is not knownv
Consumers will obtain less for¬

eign lead in February, probably
Mines, amounted to. 12,800,000 net tons, an increase of 1,200,000 tons, not more than 14,000 tons, of
which some 8,000 tons will come.
or
10.3%, over the preceding week.
Output in the corresponding
out of the Stockpile and
week of 1945 was 11,960,000 tons.
6,000
For the year to Jan. 19, 1946,
soft coal production was estimated at 32,980,000 net tons, a decrease tons from current imports.
The
of 4.9% when * compared. with the 34,685,000 tons produced from stockpile at the end of January •
will contain less than
Jan. 1 to Jan. 20, 1945.
60,000 tons

daily

crude oil production for the week tended Jan. 19,1946
4,605.950 barrels, an increase of 35,200 barrels per day over the
preceding week and 105,950 barrels in excess of the daily average
figure of 4,500,000 barrels estimated by the Bureau of Mines as the
requirements for th'e month of January, 1946.
The current figure
however.' was 127,800 barrels per: day below the average daily pro¬
duction for the week ended Jan. 20, 1945.
Daily output for the four
weeks ended Jan. 19, 1946 averaged 4,547,600 barrels.
Further de¬
average gross

...Production
Jan.

of lead.

of

Pennsylvania

anthracite

for

ended

week

the

19, 1946, as estimated by the Bureau of Mines, was 1,130,000

tons,

reported by the Institute follow:

as

the;

on

price

The total production of bituminous coal and lignite in the week
ended Jan. 19, 1946, as estimated
by the United States Bureau of

was

tails

,,

Washington intends to act

decrease of 83,000 tons

a

(6,8%) from the preceding week;

When compared with the/ output in the

of

Sales

lead

in

the

domestic;

market for the week amounted to'

2,784 tons.
Zinc

corresponding week of 1945

r

•<

Producers received requests for'
refining companies indicate that the indus- there" was an increase of 137,000 tons, or 13.8%. For the calendar
of.
try as a whole ran to stills on a Bureau of Mines basis approximately year to date, anthracite production amounted to 2,940,000 tons, com¬ postponement of > shipments
Prime Western to galvanizers, ow¬
4,627,000 barrels of crude oil daily and produced 13,979,000 barrels pared with 2,88i;000 tons in the corresponding period of 1945.
ing to the strike at the steel mills. /
of gasoline; 2,198,000 barrels of kerosine; 5,295,000 barrels of dis¬
The Bureau also reported that the estimated production of bee¬ Otherwise the market situation ia'
tillate fuel, and 8,563,000 barrels of residual fuel oil during the week hive coke in the United States for the week ended Jan.
zinc was about unchanged.
Die
19, 1946
casters are still taking substantial
ended Jan. 19,1946; and had in storage at the end of that week 100,- showed a decrease of
3,200 tons when compared with the output

Reports received from

778,000 barrels of finished and

unfinished gasoline; 9,454,000 barrels
and 40,557,000 bar¬

•B.ofta.

Allow¬

Ended

Oklahoma

Jan.

"

t391,850

+

19,

1945

249,400

t261,500

391,650
239,650

+12,300

.

Jan. 19,

Bituminous coal fit lignite—
average

276,550

time.

North

81,000

Texas

»+,,,

West Texas—-

/

•

81,000

ESTIMATED PRODUCTION

152,000

143,150

fe 489,300

-':

East Texas

138,800

Southwest Texas

,-:v

—_

342,350

Texas

Total

483,500

2,135,150

....

-V

■

'

,

2,940,000

2,881,000

3,184,000

953,000

2,822,000

2,766,000

3,025,000

Louisiana

Louisiana

—

78,400

69,000

292,100

79,950
288,850

__

208,900

by truck from
§Revised.

authorized

BY

(The

1,250

370,500

ihipments

358,200

+

200

+

3,000

77,000
54,650

81,700
47,600

200

700

250

+

77,500

409,214

76,000

368,800

56,600

365,000

77,311

and

are

and State sources

district

STATES, IN NET TONS

>

estimat.es are based on railroad carloadings and
subject to revision on receipt of monthly tonnage reports
or

of final

annual

from the

returns

river
from

operators.)

—

—--i.—

•

48,000

Mississippi

600

500

Alabama..——

—

100

•

Florida

—

u._—

205,600

198,250

206,000

Indiana

*

■

207,300

1,400

14,250

12,550

—

13,000

Illinois
-

ioo

14,050

—

■

63,300

63,200
/

46,000

.

Wyoming
Montana

•

Total United States

»These

of

19,700

98,450

+

150

V 98,200

+

17,700

3,706,550

§824,000

3,758,450
847,500

+17,500

4,605,950

+35,200

Mines

99,750
20,400
9,450
103,150

3,843,350

890,400

841,050

4,547,600

4,733,750

calculations of the requirements of domestic

crude

condensate and natural gas derivatives) based upon certain
premises outlined in its detailed forecast for the month of January.
As requirements
oil

(after deductions

of

'

'

'

'

•

for week ended 7:00 a.m. Jan, 16, 1946,
31-day basis and
the exception of
other fields for which

tThis is the net basic allowable as of Jan. 1 calculated on a
shutdowns and exemptions for the entire month.
With

includes
several

fields

shutdowns

which

5

were

ordered

were

exempted entirely and of certain
from 1 to 12 days, the entire state

for

584,000

98,000

42,000
104,000

182,000

772,000

945,000

1,055,000

Kansas and Missouri

Kentucky—Eastern^ixrii-^ti.--..Kentucky—Western

definite dates during

days,

no

-

_

60,000

398,000

343,000

t'
'

-

■

39,000

34,000

-

Michigan——
Montana (bitum. &

2,000

3,000''
•

2,000

;■

91,000

Ohio..

(lignite)

^

of

11 Weeks

Jan.

and

5

12

overstated

by

approximately

Producers.

8,000

due

to

by

error

reporting company,
RUNS

CRUDE

TO

STILLS;

AND UNFINISHED

PRODUCTION

OF GASOLINE;

STOCKS OF FINISHED

34,000

OIL, WEEK ENDED JAN. 19, 1946

•

Figures in this section include
estimate of

reported totals plus ah

unreported amounts and
Bureau

of

(Gasoline tFinish'd
% Daily Crude Runs

Refin'g

East

on

a

and

tStks. of tStks.
tStocks

Gas Oil

of

& Dist.

Resid.

Kero¬

Fuel

Fuel

sine

Oil

Oil

:1771

21,235

3,907

9,174

5,770

76.8

1'.

■

Unfin.
to Stills
f at Ref.
Daily % Op- Inc. Nat. Gasoline
Blended
Stocks
Av. erated

99.5

\''V.
District—

Produc'n

therefore

are

Mines basis

85

2,390
1,112
20,841

256

1,538

9,405

390

Capac.

Report's

:

Coast—

97.5

1,705

:

of

District No. 1

,

243

58.2

District No. 2

81.2

58

116.0

tod., 111., Ky—

87.2

709

82.7

Okla., Kan., Mo

78.3

380

81.0

Inland Texas

59.8

222

67,3

Texas Gulf Coast

89.3

1,132

91.5

Louisiana Gulf Coast.

96.8

303

116.5

55.9

57.

No.

3_~.

17.1

13

77,000

83,000

No.

4

72.1

116

73.0

B6.5

781

80.8

No. La. & Arkansas-

California

1,616

.

691

5,405

4,890

5,215

988

1,991

1,237

2,100

160

106

20

"367

1,960

1,935

16,077

4

821
180

)

420

266

-■*?/

;

16
40R

Jan.

Feb.

March

52.000

52.000

52.000

126,000

136,000

146,000

Jan. 19

52.000

52.000

52.000

2,000
146,000

1,000
117,000

4,000

Jan. 21

52.000

52.000

52.000

157,000

Jan. 22

52.000

52.000

52.000

307,000

300,000

400,000

Jan. 23

52.000

52.000

52.000

31,000

28,000

32,000
2,184,000

lignite)

Utah

-»<

-

2,201,000
1,017,000

•

ssaW

1,715,000
920,000
183,000

v

215,000

1,000

11,600,000

v

924,000
220,000

10,255,000

Total U. S. B. of M.

:?|yjj

basis Jan. 12, 1946.

tx; s. b
Jan. 20,

o* M.

0,791

23,038

85.7

4,627

85.6

13,979 *100,778

9,454

31,403

40,557

85.7

4,498

83.2

14,246

9,641

33,359

40,499

1199,267

basis'

1945

of

at

4,696

unfinished

14,693

t89,670

9,313

34,090

52,173




or

99% tin, continued

51.1250 per pound.
Quicksilver

'

Total bituminous & lignite
| AUL1UUC9

UpvittwiUnb

the B. & O.

on

UlX

Lxxv?

Pi*

in Kanawha,

w

OO.V/«>

v"#ji

»liguilftilj

X*»

t

W

.;

AVXi)

12,150,000

Jj«

Ov

\Jt»

^

close

touch

with

market felt that business
a

..

v

in

the

y

Mason, and Clay counties.
tRest of State, including
and Tucker counties.
(Includes Arizona
,

Those

covering;

fairly large quantity might de¬

velop at the lower levels named

Kon-Ferrous Melals—Allocation of Foreign
Lead for Feb. Down—rll!ali Strike Hils Copper

recently, and this made for

some

pifice

week

uncertainty

ended.

Quotations

of $103 to $106

range

the

as

covered

a

flask,

per

a

Markets,", in its issue of Jan. 24,
^Strike developments last week disturbed all sections of the
market for non-ferrous metals. Stoppage of work at the steel plants
was followed
by an announcement that mine, mill, and smelter work¬
ers in the Salt Lake area went on strike at 8 a.m. Jan. 21, halting oper¬
ations in that district of properties of Kennecott, the American Smelt¬
ing & Refining Co., and the United^States
Smelting,
Refining
and tons of foreign copper for Feb¬

imports for the month of 18,261 *

Mining Co. There
Washington

flasks

was

from

no

on

will have to

consumers

again sold at lower prices." The
publication further went on to
say in part as follows:

ruary.

'

.

South- America.,
were

Tonnages

in¬

not sufficient to dis¬

turb .the average

drop of $2.
The November

flasks,

A frank

"mostly

Government's

sumption
in

committee

The movement of
copper to

plants

during

fab¬

January

turn out to be fairly heavy.
Fear
of
spreading labor diffi¬
culties has brought numerous calls
for copper that might otherwise
may

later

date.

gard

to

shipped to buyers at
The

situation

in

a

re¬

February is uncertain.
Utah, and threats of

The strike in

strikes
brass

at

.various

refineries

and

mills, make it difficult to

timate

deliveries.

CPA

officials

in

price
situation in lead would
bring relief to the market. A real¬
istic price under prevailing con¬
ditions would probable be some¬

dropped

from

3,100
flasks

was up

Mercurio
for

one

and South
to

Europeo has
establishment

two

organization iii

Europe.
Silver
The Green bill remains in the
hands
on

of

the

Senate

Committee

Banking and Currency.

action

is

likely

Wagner,

metal, stimulate the return
and curb the buying of

invited
of

America, and the other

Washington.

of scrap,

produc¬

to operate in North

represent the

what

mary

Domestic

slightly in November

to 1,350 .flasks.

An

higher than 80 a pound.
upward revision, some argued,
would increase production of pri¬

the'

Con¬

who

until

ill,

is

.

.

NTo

Senator

returns
.,

to
>

The New York Official for for¬

eign

silver

was

unchanged

last

so

what most observers regard as an

week at 70%0. London continued:

40,000

underpriced commodity. Whether

at 44d.

Consumers

far have asked for at least

es¬

and

Washington on Jan. 22, Industry
members maintained that nothing
short of swift action to correct the

for

October to 2,500

in

agencies,

exchange of views fea¬

destined

stockpile."

November.

tion

offers
Lead

statistics of the

Bureau of Mines showed general

price.

tured the meeting of the advisory

Copper

have been

8,267,000 barrels-of Unfinished gasoline stocks,
f Includes 12,945,000
gasoline stocks.
tStocks at refineries, at bulk terminals, in
transit and in pipe lines.
§Not including 2,198,000 barrels of kerosine, 5,295,000
barrels of gas oil and distillate fuel oil and 8,563,000 barrels of residual fuel oil
produced during the week ended Jan. 19, 1946, which compares with 2,101,000 barrels,
5,325,000 barrels and
8,223.000 barrels, respectively, in the preceding week and
1,536,000 barrels, 4,627,000 barrels and 9,375,000 barrels, respectively, in the week
er.aed Jan. 20, 1945.
^Revised in Texas Gulf area. %...- •.•;'--"{0. " ,:
•Includes

barrels

Chinese,

52.000

«

•

(Other Western States

704

549

was

52.000

30

92

.

pound,

per

follows:

as

52.000

<

Tennessee

ricating

1946-

nominally

"

36/

Total U. S. B. of M.
basis Jan. 19,

shipment, in cents

Jan. 18

volved

> 341

was

Jan. 17—

tain that

188

price situation in tin

76,000

reduce their demands. Quicksilver

169

4,625
■

1,338

1

Rocky Mountain— +
.

145

28:,

2,791

925
3,659

^

The

unchanged.-Straits quality tin for'

682,000

1,026

284

of

steel

2,780,000

2,452

471

the

615,000

v

Foreign copper sold oh the basis
of 120 f.a.s. New York, for ship¬
ment to Europe, and at 11.750 for

16,946

* >

100.0

District

'f

45.2

District

220

2,501
1,387

>

~

at

virtually
result

a

2,290,000

>

word
probable
steps to be taken to correct the
lead situation.
After the meeting
of the lead group it appeared cer¬

Appalachian—

strike

as

plants.
Consumption of tin for making
tin-plate i has
been
averaging
around 2,000 tons a month.
4

stated:

(Figures in thousands of barrels of 42 gallons each)

week

720,000

,

.

"E. & M. J. Metal and Mineral

GASOLINE, KEROSINE, GAS OIL AND DISTILLATE FUEL

AND RESIDUAL FUEL

last

115.000

26,000

'

(Recommendation of Conservation Committee of California Oil

-t-i

production

2,660,000

.

™

-

Pennsylvania (bituminous)
Texas (bituminous &

104,000

32,000

lignite)

!7ew Mexico

operate

month.

Tin-plate

7,000

■

only

the month being specified; operators

required to shut down as best suits their operating schedules or labor needed
leases, a total equivalent to 6 days shutdown time during the calendar

•_

37,000

tnd

for

•

382,000

—

-,he Panhandle District and Grant, Mineral,
»nd Oregon.
*Less than 1,000 tons. ;
.
j

being

'0.

1,467,000

445,000

46,000

shut

ordered

was

down

to

the

1,000

1,477,000

'

tWest Virginia—Northern
Wyoming

■,W 1

tOklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska figures are

,'V

173.000

1,000
1,218,000

536,000

include small but Indeterminate amounts, of condensate whicb

do, however,

is mixed with crude oil in the field. v

,

122,000

—

Virginia
Washington.
"West Virginia—Southern

from

estimates

ceased

1,000
*

Iowa

be supplied either from stocks or from new production, contemplated withdrawals
crude oil inventories must be deducted from the Bureau's estimated requirements
determine the amount of new crude to be produced.
In some areas the weekly

may
to

110.000

168,000

STorth & South Dakota

4,500,000

Bureau

are

v

21,700

——

104,000

3,668,000
832,000

—

,94,650

■.•kZ'&if*
y
2,500

1123,600

98,000

.

Total East of Calif.:
California

19,500 :

,

20,000

;

Mexico

New

1;

21,000

—

Colorado

+

.

Tin

84,000

Indiana

42,550

China.

92,000

Illinois

30,450

13,

6,000

Colorado

antimony in the

situation is expected tq.
tight until new supplies
to move in volume from

1945

Arkansas and Oklahoma

63,800

29,600
45,300

—

100,750

90, OOP

—

61,750

900

3,000

—

44,100

■

•

2,900

6,050,

—

28,900

28,500

-

Jan.

5,

378,000

Georgia and North Carolina

(Not ipcl. 111., Ind.,
Why -< Ky.)
Kentucky
.Michigan1

supply
remain

1946

356,000

Alaska

Eastern—

funds.

331,000
6,000

1946

State—
Vlabama

50

150

•

Jan.

Jan.12,

new

begin

Week Ended—*Arkansas

higher
antimony in

supplies have been limited.
quotation is equivalent
22.460 per pound, United States

to

The position of

weekly

current

reflects

for

United States remains unchanged.
Demand continues active and the

LIGNITE,

289,200

1,250

+

market

and

'■>' ,r>. ■'

'.V"

'

Total

288,200

250,900

111,600

ESTIMATED WEEKLY PRODUCTION OF BITUMINOUS COAL AND

North Louisiana
Coastal

95,200

washery and dredge coal and coal shipped
tExcludes colliery fuel.
tSubject to revision.

operations,
■

revision
Demand

The
92,000

British

the British market has been active

993,000

' ■""

"•

1937

1,213,000

United States total-

in the

10s. per

costs.

Jan. 23,

20,

1945

1,164,000

'

■

v

1,085,000

•Includes

2,000,800

1,950,000 f2,122,696

-----

i946

1,130,000

552,600

1,980,800

488,750

Jan.

§Jan. 19,

Beehive coke—

,

Coastal Texas -4

1946

antimony

ward

-Calendar Year to DateJan. 20,
1945

§Jan. 12,

1946

has

long ton, establish-•
ing the quotation for the 99.6%'
grade
at
£125.
The sharp
up¬

tCommercial produc.

385,700

325,300

1,971,000

■"Total incl. coll. fuel

144,050

316,750

328,900

—

lJan. 19,
Penn. Anthracite—

478,600

483,450

140,050
320,000

Central Texas-

East

2,048,000

PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE AND COKE

OF

The British Ministry of Supply
raised the selling basis for

1945

34,685,000

(In Net Tons)

88,700

152,800

-

Jan. 20,

1946

32,980,000

£12

Week Ended-

Fanhandle Texas

tJan. 19,

Jan. 20,
1945
11,960,000
1,993,000

'-"Jan. 12,

vj..

.

Antimony

—Jan. 1 to Date—

tSubject to current adjustment.

1,000

1750

quantities of Special High Grade,,
even
though the automobile in-.
dustry has been operating at a
greatly reduced rate for some
,

OF BITUMINOUS COAL AND LIGNITE

1946
11,600,000
1,933,000

1946
12,800,000
2,133,000

Total, including mine fuel—

Daily

-

Week Ended-

f

'

r

362,500

750

390,000

260,000
800

—

Nebraska

*

■'■Revised.

800

382,000

——■

Kansas /

Week
Ended

Jan. 20,

1946

Week

1946

>r. \

'

1

Ended

from
Previous

Jan.19,

Begin.
Jan. 1

January

'

4 Weeks

Change

Week

ables

Requirements

bUf-

Actual Production

Calculated
-

"

(In Net Tons)

„

PRODUCTION (FIGURES IN BARRELS)

Stale

<•

12, 1946; and was 19,600 tons less than for
of 1945.

ESTIMATED UNITED STATES PRODUCTION

DAILY AVERAGE CRUDE OIL

r

the corresponding week

oil.

rels of residual fuel

.

for the week ended Jan'.

31,403,000 barrels of distillate fuel,

of kerosine;

Volume 163

Number

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

4460

Revenue

•

:

of

•week

of

1945

28,097 cars,

and
6.2%.

3.6%

or

week in 1944 of 49,175 cars or

•same
,*

Atl. & W. P.—W. R. R. of Ala

below the

and

an

.

•

:

and

week

:

.

1,686

1,594

3,299

3,439

*350

274

251

,457

51

135

108

598

883

3 307

3,557

3,007

1,623

1,552

1730

'309
'

-

;

1,955

40

47

141

117

1,079

1,215

2,198

2,905

353

;

445

4,356

25,926

'215

418

■?;

4,781

26,534

Mississippi Central

26,815

24,205

10,127

12,343

,185

178

917

90b

240

260

3,269

i|i08

:

923

*373

389

433.

^^>■356..

4,733

1,345

1,419

8,939

10,711

10,086

7.875

8,961

23,720

'563

22,698

23,169

701

846

783

147

149

904

120,372

126,406

121,466

105,414

128,694

Tennessee Central

Winaton^alem Southbound

,

of J^n.

'•

16,043

14,811

2,836

2,700

21,731

22,280

Chicago, St. Paul, Minn. A Omaha
Duluth, Missabe A Iron Range
Duluth, South Shore A Atlantic

4,043

3,384

1,132
672

Elgin, Joilet A Eastern
Ft. Dodge, Des Moines A South

6,624

Chicago Great Western.
Chicago, Milw., St. P. A Pac

Great Northern
Green Bay

TOtaL

I|

'2]2,558

3,920

253

211
634

the low price was accepted.)
There was a maturity of a sim¬

9,019

10,528

12,910

9,069

110

456

•

535

•

290

291

69

1,964

2,355

2,503

5,585

4,756
9,677

5,841
10,875

3,436
4,799

148

445

--2,461

2,490

| * 3,868

92,317

63,648

70,122

9,566

'

REVENUE

79
'

2,826

AND

LOADED

JAN. 19,

c.. r

.

Revenue

+
Received from
Connections

Freight Loaded

y

'

1946

1945

1944

361
2,870
7,488

291
2,096
6,051

276
2,534
6,473

Louisville—1,146

1,250

1,495

+»874

Aroostook

Boston A Maine—

Southern Pacific

Hudso^rrL-

-

Maine

1,689
...
250
11,802

——

3,296 *

"

2,640

Hartford
Ontario A Western^.
York, Chicago & St. Louis.

N. Y., N, H. &

N. Y.,

,

Susquehanna & Western--^*-*;

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie..

-,.8,538

48,149
10,046
" 1,013
6,669
* 622

'

l.|

.7+I

mm

Uegheny District—' on, Canton & Youngstown—
bimore & Ohio—

> ••

•

572

,

•

41,195

item

-

8,002
18
255

272
1,997
*1,201
11,896

'

2,809
*

782
12,60?

3,518

4,845

202,095

217,886

803

739

+2,433+:

1,164

1,558

41,054

.

24,146

28,497

1,008

1,497

2,772

1,685
:

1,359

1,830

5,398

.6,379

301

469.,
30

&
38

630

868

772

879

51

17

938

1,148

1,357

1,523

2,060

454

564

758

2,103
876

960

1,465

1,793

674

790

12

48

591

27,255 *

V

r'

0

300

17,859

881

509

1,823,

v

141

107

658

949

V

0

0

10,082

29,234^

^*29,468 "

16,521

14,468

473

0

2,054

16,973

11,884

16,110

707

9

3

3,404

4,346

75,676

-102,872

455

vsy 710

''

1,715

127,936

'

1,881

128,235

tK. O. A G.. M. V. A O. C.-A.-A

1,282

1,240

1,687

City Southern^—2,525

3,031

-

4.615

2,010

3,475

3,278

293

337

293

154

127

178

4,868

6,664

5,567

15,310

17,019

17,167

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines
Missouri Pacific

+

171

23

41

1,278

4.300

3,915

1,587

2,140

2,411

354

550

4,003
14,012

5,650

*

54

94

135

383

9,372

8,629

7,526

8,63C

St. Louis-Southwestern
^ 2,326
Texas A New Orleana——*——. 7,665

6,81?

3,369

3,082

4,791

11,169

13,067

5,196

5,554

3,347

4,819

4,902

6,006

8,381

Wichita Falls A Southern.

71

92

83

63

3P

Weatherford M. W. A N. W

65

32

17

11

29

55,282

72,269

71,916

56,183

69,892

..

j,

,

:

,

Total

tIncluded
Oklahoma
and

A

in Atlantic Coast Line
Gulf

Ry.

only

in

1944

RR.

and

tlncludes Midland

Valley Ry. and Kansas,
also Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Ry. in 1945

1946.

NOTE—-Previous

year's

'

figures revised.

Weekly Statistics of Paperboard Industry
We give herewith latest

figures received by

Paperboard Association, Chicago, 111., in relation to activity iix the
paperboard industry*
The members

industry, and its

of

this Association

represent

83%

of the total

program includes a statement each week from each

member of the orders and
production, and also a figure
cates the activity of the mill based on the time

which indi¬

figures

These

advanced to equal 100%, so that they represent the total

are

industry.

.

,.

-

Orders

.

fifie

nr

i»45--week Ended

Nov.

10.—

162,023

17

156,223

Percent of Activity

Tons

Tons

201,060

.

Remaining

Current Cumulative

511,022

97

157,617

509,984'

97

94

123,281

154,122

479,228

95

147,083

3,996

11,903

13,978

Nov.- 24——_—
123,781
Dec.
1——172,297

454,926
472,568
490,123

91
96
97
98
92

94
94
94
94
94
94

52

93

75

75

Dec.

28,370

28,473

11.132

21,902-

6,512

4,697

1,256

4,648.

;

;

11,493
r

9,381

150,330
122,229

29..J— *

97,323

—.

1946—Week Ended

'

Jan. 12_.

.

55,072.

,

18,900

,

23,243

176,346

143,366

—

Jan.,19_—_r—v"

2,369

,

necessarily

equal the

repbrts, orders made, for
ments

of

unfilled

ber

and

Manfacturers

lumber

porting
Trade

Association,
shipments of 428 mills re¬
to the National
Barometer

were

Lumber
22.1%

above

production for the week
ending January 19, 1946. In the

same

week hew

mills

were

tion.

29.6%

orders of these

above produc¬

Unfilled order files of the

463,446

.

stocks. For reporting softwood

alent to 33 days' production at the

equivalent to 36 days' production.
For the year-to-date,

.

.

" 526,891
523,672

94*'

,85

143,550
j ,507,651
93
88 .' ,
week, plus orders received, less production, do
close.
Compensation for delinquent
filled from stock, and other items made necessary adjust*
134,265

unfilled orders at the

or

orders

487,481
451,654

78,8.62
111,967
144,482;,

Notes—Unfilled orders of the prior
not

.

30

of

reporting

shipments

identical mills

ex¬

ceeded production by: 14.2%; or¬
ders by

28.0%.

.

5——•

-

54,044

152,571
154,235
157,792.
148,591

173,537

15—

;

21,026

8.L—^*1.

.

22

Jan.

"

*

'

Dec.

Dec

20,922

....—

Dec.

1

"

10,623,198 bales of
bales of linters on
13,379,245 bales of
lint and 25,747 bales of linters on
Dec. 31, 1944.
There were 21,551,960 botton
spindles active during December,
which compares with 21,551,960
coton
spindles
active
during
November, 1945, and with 22,212,432 active cotton spindles during
December, 1944.
Nov.

current rate, and gross stocks are

94

Nov.

167,885

compares with
lint and 43,587

mills, unfilled orders are equiv¬

Unfilled Orders

^roduction

Tons

3—.—

Nov.

'

Received

:

,

28,490

146,172

10,504,564 bales of lint

and 44,323 bales of linters, which

of t

REPORTS—ORDERS, PRODUCTION. MILL ACTIVITY

65,793

17L732

on

reporting mills amounted to 87 %

STATISTICAL

-3,631

164,969

linters

According to the National Lum¬

from the National

us

2,564

;

were

of

Ended January 19,1946

56,514
26,058

3,626

bales

268,079

Lumber Movement—Week

19,933

Pocahontas District—

W 56,838

\ 18,579

82

14,650

76,492

.

'

p| 5,147

there

2,751

12,586

156,494

30,769

1,401

-

19,531

74,871
*

4,271

■

and

Dec. 31, 1944.
On hand in public storage and
at compresses on Dec. 31, 1945,

1(635

9,050

,

There were 2,380,324 bales of
lint and 302,678 bales of linters on
hand in consuming establishments
on Dec. 31, 1945, which compares
with 2,202,498 bales of lint and
257,002 bales of linters on Nov. 30,
1945, and 2,320,596 bales of lint

2,517

1,239

Missouri A Arkansas

with 4,020,386 bales of lint and
618,895 bales of linters in the cor¬
responding period a year ago.
.v

2,62?

2,180

Litchfield A Madison

Louisiana A Arkansas

31 cotton consumption was
3,595,851 bales of lint and 417,141
bales of linters, which compares

Dec.

3,649
"

1,09.9
5,130

.

1,442

8,443 :

Total.

5,808

2,260

620

1,320

——

47

1,620

13,931

Maryland—,




758,809 bales of lint and 120,947
bales of linters in December, 1944.
In
the
five
months
ending

i

2,294

12

.221

:

103

•

74,684

Total———

4,405

3,200

'

'203

1,497

—

Virginian.

3 774

-

206

18,014

1,594

k..

Chesapeake & Ohio——
Norfolk & Western—

3,860

5

16,293

;vi

f

342

Lines.-—

nsylvania System
ding Co.__——
on (Pittsburgh).

931'

.

5,884

Yalley++++-+.————

n-Reading Seashore

3,293

1,980

' *7,40#

7,259
12 s

4,780

-

40,688

1,897

—----

A

g

8,214
"

1,191
375
,6,389

"

■

5,627

.

raier

2,200

operated.

3

Indiana-w—..
tral R. R. of New J-rsey
ttwaU*-.u+*—
iberland A Pennsylvania
abria

13,966
-2,352

343

y,,v;

—;

& Lake Erie—

semer

1,536

7,144

50,261
15,911
2,796
16,447
2,139

157,912

Wheeling A Lake Erie—•
;-r"

*782

368

19

,

14,700
2,096

7,770
4,579

-

,

5,024

296

50,563

;

-

-

3,850

4,230
285

7,806

6,851

,

,23

,
,

Marquette*—
—
4,795 | 4,794
Pittsburgh A Sh6wmut-.J-.««.J-.*,—•- " 966
846
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Norths
243
.V 289
Pittsburgh A West Virginia—,.975',
1,012
Rutland
—
-—-362
•
305
Wabash—^-——
5,705
6,203

,

bales of linters in November and

721

7,032
2,485

8,986
3,341
,l,2f
11,724

1,381
7,678

2,293

Pere

«yy>tmi

,.8,287
2,278
„

743,450

1,161
5,365

255

Texas A

86,303

linters, as compared with
bales of lint and 83,680

14,621

16,574

2,547

,,

.

,

3,368
14,816

,

, 6.376

; 2,496

45,354 *,. 44,856
10,782
8,769
787- «.:
. 787
5,730
;
6,631
456
414

Central Lines

New York,
New

6.757

;

2,887
~ 2,078
6,814"« 5,788

—-

New York

-

12,491

„

3,941 + 3,608
,,128
168
1,585
:.1,904

3,147
145

,

-

1,872
3,268

1,595

2,099
325

T

2 790

4,333
1,646

10'?n«

2,037
320

\v

International-Great Northern

8,?7i!

106

651,784 bales of lint and
bales of

888

Burlington-Rock Island—

" 7'?™

178

85

12,737

3,100

122,589

6'?™

179

28

11,348
12,079

Gulf Coast Lines

Kansas

In the month of December, 1945,
consumed
amounted
to

cotton

2 887

Quanah Acme A Pacific

179

4,72)

624

22,087

826

St. Louis-San Francisco

1.1U

"

Central"

Montour

Wash¬

12 318

<,

40

7'^-■

<■

14,131

375

2,146

Western Pacific^.*

1,807
12,260

England
,

at

ington on Jan. 21 issued " its re¬
port showing cotton consumed in
the United States, cotton on hand,
and active cotton spindles in the

3,237

:

29

23d 1

,

Consumption

Bureau

2,801

—

System———

2,244
11,724

T^unkwVsW"-::.-

Lehlah Valley

Census

12^527

*,

31

Lehigh A Hudson River.

LeSihA New

The

3,314

tPaoific}^*^—^*..

,1,000
5,494

11,436
Grand

in
;

2,984

—

36

—-

& lro'ntonDetroit & Toledo Shore Line

Jan. 31

12,756

City*—.

961
4,111

Toledo

Detroit

on

$1,318,226,000.

647

47

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Detroit A Mackinac

.

3',308

9,728
3,210

20,335

21,160

Toledo. Peoria A Western——*——Union Pacific

Utah

22 729

3,454

268-

;

1.184
-.4.324

.

VermontV-1L

Delaware &

1945
1>^61
50.
13,448
2,282

1946 ,
1,701
419
13,388

Eastern District—
Ann Arbor

24,115

Peoria A Pekin Union.—37

;

Total

fVntral Indiana

^

'

-

3,961
448

Southwestern District—

RECEIVED. FROM CONNECTIONS

Railroads

SStra

22,406
2,673

North Western Pacific

2,347,810

Total Loads

Chicago, Indianapolis &

2,322

amount of

Dec. Cotton

3,357

\

Total—

(NUMBER OF CARS) WEEK ENDED

Bangor &

,

85,396

Missouri-Illinois—._r_.—________
Nevada Northern—,

798,650

<77,572

•

the week ended Jan. 19, 1946,
59 roads reported gains over the week ended

FREIGHT

^

256

85,713

Illinois Terminal—

1945.

20,

99

2,124

i

Fort Worth A Denver

179,531

2,244,030

749,475

separate railroads and system? for

'

ilar issue off bills
the

950

1,071

310

—,

tabl&^ a summafy;of the freighf carloadings fos

During this period

0.376%

per annum.

5,636

Denver A Rio Grande Western^
Denver A Salt Lake—.

•

Jan.

approximately

522

140

Colorado A Southern.:

779531

; 783,060

2,174,490

Total

the

discount

4;331

484

Chicago, Burlington A Quincy
Chicago A Illinois Midland
Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific
Chicago A Eastern Illinois

1944 m

1945
-

r.

The following

0.368%

891

2,387

.——J.*—.*

Alton_

correspond¬

^

19——

January

of

approximately

annum.

643

4,700

.

Bingham A Garfield

1946.'

Week of January 12*

Week

discount

1,214

413

Ishpeming

Atch., Top. A Santa Fe System.

|

.

•

.

5——

of January

Week

Range of accepted competitive
bids:

(61% of the amount bid for at

? Central Western District—

Pocahontas.
.

approxi¬

annum.

11,226

12,855

Spokane, Portland A Seattle

Eastern, Pocahontas, and Northwestern
decreases
compared with 1944, except the

reported

per

11,423

3,492

332

Spokane Interna tional

of 2,912 cars
decrease of 5,064 cars below the

decreases compared with the

districts reported

all

discount

14.494

11,242

A Western

Northern Pacific——

ing week in 1945 except the
and

of

rate

mately 0.375%

month of December.

corresponding week in 1945.
All

alent

13,914
,3,024

'455

Minneapolis A St. Louis
Minn,, St. Paul A S. S. M.

amounted to 10,071 cars, a decrease

preceding week, and a

below the

•

,

Average price, 99.905+; equiv¬

16,173
2,814
.22,002
4,311
1,333

11,622

i

Lake Superior A

sponding week in 1945.
Coke loading

cepted in full),-

Low, 99.505; equivalent, rate of

Chicago A North Western

below the corre¬

preceding week and a decrease of 2,607 cars

Total
accepted,
$1,315,717,000
(includes $53,578,000 entered on a
fixed price basis at 99.905 and ac¬

Northwestern District—

,■

below

amounted to 9,300 cars, a decrease of 420 cars

Ore loading

the

Total applied for, $2,025,044,000.

per

/

.

2, which were offered on
Jan. 25, were opened at the Fed¬
eral Reserve Banks on Jan. 28.

High, 99.907, equivalent rate of

'

corresponding week in 1945.

to be dated Jan. 31 and to mature

May

1,108

,

Southern System

ffii
Livestock loading amounted to 11,027 cars, a decrease of 7,099
cars below the preceding week and a decrease of 4,384 cars below
the corresponding week in 1945.
In the Western Districts alone
loading of livestock for the week of Jan. 19 totaled 7,771 cars, a
decrease of 5,761 cars below the preceding week, and a decrease of
3,174 cars below the corresponding week in 1945.
I
Forest products loading totaled 33,070 cars, an increase of 230
cars above the preceding week, but a decrease of 6,041 cars below

•the

about

27,436

669

129

$1,300,000,000 or there¬
off 91-day Treasury bills

10,735

10,190
23,150

Seaboard Air Line———.

an¬

Jan. 28 that the tend¬

on

for

ers

1,862

1,418

435

502

3,950
m

856

407

,

420

268

3,123
iv'r

Secretary of Treasury

nounced

4,044
18.038

2,797

Richmond, Fred. A Potomac

900

4,044
14,133

Nashville, Chattanooga A St. L.

,

695

3,936
28,774

Norfolk Southern.,.
Piedmont Northern..

,

Treasury
III" Bill Offering
The

44

25,914

Macon, Dublin A,Savannah

-

*

U

903

'

'

384

'317

Louisville A Nashville

grain and grain products loading for the week

in 1945.

5,810

402

4,597
1,447

756

Illinois Central System

36,599 cars, an increase of 103 cars above the preceding
an increase of 5,528 cars above the corresponding week

19 totaled

<,

3,767

*

Georgia A Florida..
Gulf, Mobile A Ohio

above the preceding

tricts alone,

3,982

Georgia——,—....;

Grain and grain products loading totaled 54,925 cars, an increase of 472 cars above the preceding week and an increase of 8,898
cars above the corresponding week in 1945.
In the Western. Dis-

•

2,669
14,675

3 861

Florida East Coast

loading amounted to

709

463

1.874
,
f

Gainesville Midland.—.—.:

184,725 cars, an increase of 14,6t93
week, and an increase of 12,472 cars above
the corresponding week in 1945.
>
Coal

cars

.

'

276

10,359

Columbus & Greenville

of merchandise less than carload lot freight totaled.
an increase of 1,441 cars above the preceding week,
increase of 19,368 cars above the corresponding week in 1945.

1945

13,059

t

14,676

Clinchfield—————————

cars,

1946

:

363

791

f

Charleston A Western Carolina——

Loading

!. 117,389

Connections

1944

v

409

/ 13 039

Central of Georgia

corresponding week in 1945.

Results of

Received from

Loaded'

;1945 *

,

7i i

—.

Atlanta, Birmingham A Coast

decreased

Total

"

Atlantic Coast Line

freight loading totaled 328,968 cars, a decrease .of
below the preceding week, and a decrease of 50,739 cars

cars

'

1946v

Alabama, Tennessee A Northern

Miscellaneous

129,488

■J Total Loads
t

Revenue Freight

'

Durham & Southern

Loading of revenue freight for the week of Jan. 19,
23,083 cars, or 3.0% below the preceding week.

•

'

•' 'iz
' ', 4*
Southern District—

/

decrease below the

a

+

'

;

Loading of revenue freight for the week ended Jan. 19, 1946,
totaled 749,475 cars, the Association of American Railroads announced on Jan. 24.
This was a decrease below the corresponding

•

'

Railroads

Freight Car Loadings During
Ended Jasi.l 9,1946 Decreased 23,083 Cars

643

Compared
responding

to

the average

week

of

cor¬

1935-1939,

production of reporting mills was
2.0% below; shipments were 7.3%

above; orders were 2.4% below.

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

644

sets

Y. Banks in Favorable

Position lo
the

1,200 banking organizations under the supervision of
New York State Banking Department are in a favorable position
The

the

meet
s

p

the

war

u

El¬

years,

perintend-

Department. During the year the
liquidation was completed of the
last domestic banking; organiza¬
tion taken over by the Superin¬
tendent because of insolvency. As
a
result, for the first time since

said in his an¬
nual report to

Governor

the

and the Legis¬
lature

d

m a

e

public Jan. 11.

Superintendent was
first designated as statutory liqui¬
dator the Banking Department is
engaged in not a single liquidation
of an insolvent banking institu¬
1908 when the

He stated that

banking

the

system of New
York State
It

emerged

a s

from

the

years

nearly

war

V. Bell

Elliott

5

quality of its assets the best on
record, its liquidity increased and
its
earning power considerably

improved.

J'

-

"In recent months some

'

,

revival

private borrowing has taken
place," says Mr. Bell. "There is
evidence
that loans have been
made
to
business in somewhat
larger amounts this year. : In ad¬
dition, the outstanding balances of
guaranteed loans for war purposes
have been declining since the mid¬
in

heavier re¬
private credit.
Real

dle of 1944, indicating
liance upon

estate loans and loans to consum¬
ers

increasing dur¬

have also been

ing the year. The banking system
thus appears at the end of 1945
to be

making progress in its tran¬

peace."

sition from war to

that the opera¬

Bell noted

Mr.

the tim¬

tions of the Treasury and

ing of the war loan drives kept
the resources and deposits of the
commercial banks from extending
their wartime rise in the first ten

the assets of
and savings >and
continuing their
expansion,
reached
new
high
records in this period. He noted
months

of 1945, but

the savings banks
loan associations,

that

total

mercial

>

of

resources

the

com¬

increased

banks

$1,104,654,000 to a record high of $23,157,487,000 on June 30, 1945, and
their deposits rose $1,068385.000
to $21,384,350,000. As of October
27, however; resources and de¬
posits stood at $21,563,898,000 and
$19,710,290,000, respectively, show¬
ing losses of $488,935,000 in re¬
sources
and
$604,475,000 in de¬
posits for the ten months.
]
It is likewise reported that: .
i
"An increase of $94,270,000 in
capital funds of the commercial
in the first

banks

months

ten

of

the year is ascribed in the report
to 'an increasing awareness on the

'

part of bank management that ex^
panded
deposits
and
post-war

•

lending
responsibilities >> require
strengthened capital structures.?
The larger part of this increase

;

came

■

from retention

of

earnings,

but

•

$8,399,000 of it resulted from
the sale of additional stock
by 22

.

;

banks. In all, 55 banks and trust
companies took steps during the
year
to
improve their capital
structures, aside from the reten¬
tion of

earnings,

cussions

with

initiated dis¬
Department

or
the

; looking toward that end."
>

,

Deposits,, of

mutual

banks it is indicated
$1,000,000,000 in
the
months

savings
increased
first

ten

of

1945, reaching a new
$8,122,000,000. This gain
compared with one of $760,000,000
in
the
corresponding period of
There

is i

some

however, Mr. Bell
rate

of gain

evidence,

that the
in savings bank de¬
says,

posits has begun to level off. The
statewide
and

the
and

dollar gain

November

in October

less

was

than

in

corresponding months of 1944,
in

the

western

was

of

the

war

ac¬

area

State, where substantial
tivity

that: ' /
''
"Since 1908 the Superintendent
has taken
over
177 institutions

concentrated, the rate

of deposit gain has now been
un¬
der the 1944 figures for over six
months. For savings and loan as¬

sociations the gain in
♦hP«r*f ten
f rst
months

resources

was




and

in

and re¬

148

liquidated

has

opened or*released 29. The liabil¬
ities involved in these closings

aggregate $460,000,000.

Dividends

available to
the creditors and depositors of the
148 liquidated institutions aver¬
aged 81.40% of the amount of
their claims. Over the last three
years 23 liquidations of domestic
banking organizations,; including
and other funds made

of United States,
completed." . >
Bell
cautions the banks

that of the Bank
have been
Mr.

proposals with respect to

associations
would, among other things, permit
deferment
of the
first periodic
payment made in connection with
and

loan

estate market to

effort in the real

a

loan

for

the

construction

of

a

building; eliminate the authority
savings and loan associations to
charge a premium upon loans in
addition to the legal rate of in¬
terest, and forbid the withdrawal
of shares pledged as security for
a
mortgage loan while the mort¬
gage is outstanding."
:
The Superintendent says in the
report that ^ the Department ex¬
pects to complete early in 1946
the comprehensive study which it
began in 1945 of the business and
earnings of licensed lenders. The
purpose of this study, he says, is

of

contingencies, $150,000.
y
r "This $3,425,000 is $752,000 more
.

31.

1934,

and

in the

increase

prices up to incorporate scar¬
city value," and says:
"The
supply
of
institutional

bid

mortgage money now is virtually
unlimited. These funds can be a
great national asset in the realiza¬
tion of the nation's goal of pro¬

bank, having started with the in¬
stitution in 1917; H. H. Harp, ap¬

stock

of

the bank in the last several years.

March,

sale

after

1934,

of

$1,000,000 in preferred stock to
the
RFC, the capital structure
also included common stock, $1,-

s

entered; the

bank's

Officer.;;

National

of

amounts

"Small

retired

time

from

preferred
to time.

Cashier.

t

Mr. Harp
employ and

appointed

Caulley,

grand total of $2,673,000.
were

a n

partment until his assignment two
years
ago
as
Manager of the
Banking
Facility
at
the
Fort
Worth Army Air Field; O. D. McTrust

r

s

years ago

Manager of the Savings De¬

was

000,000: surplus, $500,000, and un¬
divided
profits, $173,000, for a
•

i

t

pointed ' A s
Twenty-eight

has

with

served

22

Mr.

Assistant
McCaulley

the

Worth

Fort

For several
years he has been identified with
the Trust Department; B. P. Mc¬
years.

As of Jan. 31,

two

1944, shortly under

ago,

years

Labor Department

bid and 37 asked yesterday in

Reorganization
Reporting that "substantial pro¬
gress" had been made in reorgan¬
izing his department, Secretary of
Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach an¬

nounced

on

Jan. 20 the member¬

of two new commitees whose
appointment
was ■; proposed
by
President
Truman's
labor-man¬

agement conference last fall.
will

make

One

recommendations

on

operation of the Federal
other on
technical and analytical services.
Mr. Schwellenbach said that the

over-all

Conciliation Service; the

change in the de¬
reorganization
had
integration of the work

ply of mortgage money is pressed
before new build¬

been the

partment's
of

the

bureaus

services,

and

the

local over-the-counter market.

most important

cently

of the di¬
rectors
of - the
First
National
Bank in
Palm Beach, Fla., in
At: the first meeting

1946, the following officers were
for
the
ensuing year:

elected

Wiley ;' R. :: Reynolds,
President;
Bert
C.
Teed, Executive First
Vice-President; R. E. Conn, C. L.

"Times"

bank,

Mr.

President

elected

was

member

of

of

a

director

Executive

is

Pier

United

Com¬

ViceStockyards

now

Corporation and General Man¬
ager of the Fort Worth
stock-*

yards.
In addition to these changes,
Mr! Harding announced the in¬
crease in capital, effective Jan. 3,
.

1946, from $2,500,000 to $3,500,000,
and

increase in

surplus from $2,-»
Hazel S. Gorham,
Geo.
S.
Ross,
Vice-Presidents; 500,000 to $3,000,000. ; This was
by payment of a
Gordon W. Lvnn, Vice-President accomplished
and
Trust
Officer; fH. V. Nye, 20% stock dividend amounting to

Mrs.

Pierce,

Vice-President and Cashier; E. P.

Dickey, Vice-President and'Comp¬
troller; Miss Mary Nell Pinckard,
Vice-President;

Assistant

Wiley

Reynolds, Jr., Geo. E. Hossler,
thq
Miss Elizabeth A, Root and Mrs.

one can

the
and

mittee;;

re¬

taken
over,
with
Secretary's office, the New York
reported from Washing¬
of existing
structures will rise
high enough to absorb the new ton, Jan. 20, in its account of the
announcement, and continued. The
funds in search of employment.
Conciliation Service, as the agency
That process is more commonly
ing on a large scale is resumed,
only expect that the price

"It is indicative of the progress

"In

Mr.

veteran employee of the

a

t

viding good housing and employ¬
ment for all. But if this vast sup¬
for investment

period

Dietz is

on

common

$1,752,000 during this
time," Mr. Muir said.

of
of

equity

President to Vice-President.

represents

bank's;;net .worth

than, the
March
an

Companies

Donald, appointed Assistant Cash¬
the outstanding ier.;; He commenced his banking
preferred stock issue was $650,000. career as office boy in 1919 with
to determine whether the statu¬
In 1944, the bank retired $150,- the bank, returning to the bank
tory rates of charge allowed to 000. and last
year it redeemed an¬ after serving in the Army Finance
licensed
lenders are the lowest
Department he has been
han¬
other $20Q,000."
possible consistent with the main¬
Common
stock of Louisville dling the Veterans' Department.
tenance of adequate service.
Mr. Harding also announced the
Trust Company* whiph within the
last eight years has been as low resignation of John T. Herd, of
as $6 a share, now is on a divi¬
Post, Texas, as a director.
W. L.
dend basis.
It was quoted 35
Pier* former Vice-President of

"the present ship

facilitating

against

R.

$500,000 and sale of 25,000 shares
of

new
stock at $40 per share,
amounting to $1,000,000, of which

$500,000

was

$500,000

as

placed as canital and
surplus. ; Dividends
amounting to $100,000, at the rate

of 8%, were paid on capital stock
Cashiers:
Bassett outstanding as of Dec. 31, 1945.
and Stanley A. Wilson. Assistant
At the annual meeting of share¬
Trust Officers; J, J. Henderson,
holders of Bank of America, San
Auditor and Assistant Comptrol¬

Duff in,

Ruth

Assistant

Richard C. Boggs, H. Hood

which f. had
been carrying
the
i
Francisco. Calif., a new member
■
heaviest
burden
recently,
he ler; William H. Miller and Miss was added to the combined board
Department will
Nancy Williamson, Assistant
added (according to the "Times")
of directors and advisory council
propose
several changes in the was
Auditors.
1
< < ;:y
■
■J'
receiving urgent attention.
in the person of Alfred J. LundBanking Law at the 1946 session
The
President. appointed the
Additional field offices had been
berg. a leader in the business of
of the Legislature, according to
following directors on commit¬
opened in Boston and Kansas City,
Oakland, and President and di¬
the report. As to these proposals
tees: Examining, Ralph B. Wag¬
and a Division of Field Operations
rector of the Key System and of
it is stated in the Department's
ner. George L. Royal and J. Ken¬
and another for procedures and
the/Railway
advices that: Equipment
and
neth Williamson; Discount, Wiley
training had been established. Mr.
Realtv Co., Ltd.
"The recommendations will in¬
In addition to
Schwellenbach
said
he
would R. Reynolds, Bert C. Teed and
clude legislation with respect to
Wiley R. Reynolds,
Jr.; Trust, presiding over the extensive East
seek more funds to employ addi?
reserves
required to be main¬
Wiley R. Reynolds, Comer J. Kim¬ Bay transit system, Mr. Lundberg
tional conciliators.
tained by banks, trust companies,
ball, Walter S. Leeds. J. Kenneth has served as President of the
The Associated Press reported
private bankers and
industrial
Williamson,
Bert Winters and California State Chamber of Com¬
that
Mr.
Schwellenbach's
ap¬
banks; rebates upon the prepay¬
Bert Teed.
*
1
merce
and
of
ment
of
discounted
instalment pointees to the advisory Commit¬
the; Oakland
The directors voted a monthly
tee are: '
;
loans: corporate dissolutions, and
dividend of 12 cents per share Chamber of Commerce and also
certain aspects of the power of
David
Sarnoff,
President
of
($12,000) to stockholders of rec¬ served as President of; the Amer¬
savings and loan associations to Radio Corporation of America;
ord as of the 23rd of each month ican Transit Association and the
make loans.
Vincent P. Ahearn, Executive Sec¬
^
through June 23rd.. payable on
"The proposal
concerning - re¬ retary of the National Sand and the first day of th£ following California Transit Association.
Eric A.- Johnston, President of
serves
would dispense " with the Gravel Association; Clarence O.
month, v An extra dividend of 5
known

as

inflation."

(

Banking

The

.

#

,

,.

need for certain
culations
made

in

which

complicated cal¬
must now be

computing

reserve

re¬

quirements,
without , materially
affecting existing practices as to
the manner of holding reserves. It

suggested that the Bank¬

is also

ing Law be modified to place pri¬
vate bankers oh the same basis
as banks and trust companies with

respect

high at

1944.

•,

It is added

the

doubled,

■

tion.

with its

size

of the Banking

quidation Bureau

Banks,

of

ent

"The

savings

•

Bell,

V.

liott

1U7%,.compared with,a
$25,700,000, or 8.68% in
the corresponding period of 1944.
Mr. Bell says that 1945 marked
the close of a chapter for the Li¬
gain of

post¬

Items About Banks, Trust

and

'

to

Qr

onsibilities

of

S

♦

v

re-

foreign agencies taken
clarify the position of!
the Superintendent in connection
(Continued from page 618)
with suits required to be main-,
tant Vice-President; W. C. Dietz
tained in the course of the liqui¬ surplus," '$1,900,000; % undivided
profits, $375,000, and reserve for advanced from: Assistant Vicedation. ,v.y
over

Bell Reports

Face Post-War Years,

of

Thursday* January 31,1946

"As

to
to

requirements.

reserve

rebates

upon

the

pre¬

payment of discounted instalment
loans, the Department proposes to
recommend

that

the

law

be

require that when a
borrower, who is not in default,
voluntarily repays his loan prior
to the time final payment is due,
amended to

there

shall

be

refunded

to

him

the pro rata

unearned portion of
the interest previously deducted.
"In the matter of corporate

dis¬

solutions, the Department pro¬
poses that the law be amended to
allow the vesting in the Super¬
intendent

of title to

and property in this

the business

State of any
foreign banking corporation of
which he has taken possesion for
liquidation
purposes.
The proposed cmcxxucm would *xxxxpxxx,
amendent wvuxu simplify
the task of administering the as-

Skinner, of Automobile and Avia¬

tion Parts Manufacturers, Inc.; H.
W. Steinkrauss, President of the

share was also

cents per

declared

the U. S,

Chamber of Commerce

record as of for the past four years and Pres¬
Feb. 15, payable Feb. 21, 1946.
ident of 'the Motion Picture Pro¬
Bridgeport Brass Company; Frank
It was reported that a substan¬
P. Fenton, American Federation of
ducers and Distributors, Inc., was
tial increase in deposits had been
Labor
director
of
organization,
made during
1945 of $7,244,000, present to assume his seat as a
Boris
Shiskin, AFL economist;
Richard T. Frankensteen; Vice- raising the deposits to $52,946,000 director of the Bank of America
to

stockholders of

of Dec. 31,

President of the United Automo¬
bile Workers, Congress of Indus¬

as

trial

Organizations, and Clinton S.
Golden, Assistant to the President

$776,070

Lee H.

1945,; while capital for the first time since his elec¬

promotions:

jumped
tion last November.
:
$3,784,000 as of the
At the directors'
organization
same date.
Three officers of the
of
the
United
Steel
Workers bank are still in service, but are meeting which followed, all offi¬
(CIO
J.-'/ expected to rejoin the bank staff cers of the bank were reappointed
Those appointed to the technical during the next several months:
and some new appointments ap¬
they are H. Hood Bassett, Richard
committee are:yy%'^.y
proved for subsequent announce¬
Fred W. Climer, Assistant to the C. Boggs and William H. Miller.
President of Goodyear Tire and
ment.;';"
;V;
Rubber Co.; W. H.
In his annual message to share¬
Winans, of
Following the annual meeting
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp.; on Jan. 8, R. E. Harding. Pres¬
holders, President L. M. Giannini,
E.
B.
Roberts, of Westinghouse ident of the Fort Worth National
observing the transition of indus¬
Electrical and Manufacturing Co.; Bank,
announced the following
Hill, Vice-President of Mc¬

Graw-Hill
J.

,

Joe

Publishing Co.; Robert

Watt, AFL International Repre¬

sentative; Nelson H. Cruikshpnk,
AFL

funds, including reserves,

director of

social

activities; Herbert W.

insurance

Payne,

of

the Textile Workers Union (CIO),

and Nathan Spere, of the United

Electrical Workers (CIO).

E.

President.
was

.

f

to

trial

,

,

activity

to

peacetime

pat¬

,

Clarke elected ViceMr. Clarke formerly

Vice-President of the First
Bank, Albany, Texas;

terns, noted that preliminary re¬

ports

indicated

the

corner

turned in December when

a

was

small

National

W." H.

Peterson,

promoted from

increase

in

manufacturing

Vice-President to Vice- ployment occurred.
Mr. Peterson started
President.
Assistant

in

of

em¬

was re¬

garded as a significant develop¬
bank in 1925 and ment since factory employment
recent years held the position
Assistant Cashier and Assis- normally declines in December.
.

to

This

work in the