Business Revival Accelerates Despite European Crisis
New York dispatch reports accelerating business revival across sectors during the week, aided by steel price boosts and postwar demand. Railroads profit from higher volumes while a building boom and heavy consumption lift trade. cotton demand remains strong as mills use record January outputs and financing stays supple amid favorable money rates.
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New York
Associated Press
Ruhr
Inter Meder
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nardy Ostis Mortes Irdiette
Census Bureau
Federal Reserve
Local Market Prices Rise Cabbage Leads Week Gains
The telegram from 1946 reports cabbage prices climbing, with overall week gains across produce including potatoes steadying and onions firmer. Oranges and apples hold firm. five-cwt veal and dressed beef rise to higher levels. beef and poultry markets show mixed firmness as cold weather tightens receipts.
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State Board of Agriculture
Mar Jkeat Tome Ag
Galves
Bee
Gamb
Bess
Plans for Brooklawn Brooklawn residence and five story apartment
Architect W G Southey completed drawings for a Brooklawn residence on Algonquin road for Edward C Spargo with Dutch colonial design and extensive interior woodwork including paneled walls and fireplaces. A five story apartment building at Fairfield avenue Elmswood place is proposed at about 250000 dollars with 36 units.
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I W. G. Southey
Algonquin Road
Brooklawn
Edward C. Spargo
Noog
Yarprougn
Fairfield Avenue
Elmswood Place
Customs Receipts Forecast Record February Totals
Washington February 15—Treasury officials expect a new monthly record for customs receipts from the February collections under the tariff bill. Early figures show 95 million in tariff duties for the first fifteen days, with analysts predicting an aggregate near 66 million for February if the trend continues. September last year saw the closest figure at just over 93 million as ports moved goods ahead of higher rates.
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Washington
Yeb
Treasury
Ealing
Locomotive Plant Deficit Recovered, Dividends Paid in 1922
American Locomotive Company and affiliates post a 1922 net profit of $1,700,478 for the year ended December 31. Dividends totaling $3,250,000 were paid on preferred and common shares despite profits below prior-year levels, funded from surplus and cash reserves. The first half of 1922 showed a deficit, while the second half yielded a substantial profit before dividends. Unified orders on Jan 1, 1923 reached $49.3 million, up from $8.8 million a year earlier.
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York
American Locomotive Company
Montreal Locomotive Works
American Locomotive Sales Corporation
Fletcher
Irving Fisher Weekly Index of Prices and Purchasing Power
Irving Fisher presents a weekly index showing movement of wholesale prices for 200 commodities and a separate purchasing power index relative to the prewar year 1913. The report notes May 1920 price peaks, 10.5 times prewar rents, and cites 209 price quotations with weights from War Industries card reports and Dun's Weekly Review.
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Ldien
Irving Pisher
Houghton Mifflin & Co
Pollak Foundation of Economic Research
Crewton
Mass
Dun
War Industries
What City Zoning Is and How It Secures Stability In Values
An overview of zoning origin in 1916 and its purpose to divide cities into districts with uses, heights, and open spaces regulated to curb haphazard growth. It argues that comprehensive zoning protects health, safety, morals, and welfare, stabilizing land and home values and guiding orderly development.
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Muntciparti Cid
Gulf
Gearing KB. Wisher
Cary
Providence
Provident
Luo
Plantess
New York
New Tursey
New York City
Dyar Pane Amneat Aeniogemivianens Alko
Syriels
Tavery
Hare
Hors
Securitte
Hla Land Ag
Hig Aeighbors
Higney
Valiey
Rome
Lears
United States
Miitorne
Sugar Consumption 44 Percent Higher in U S
A Department of Commerce survey shows U S sugar use at about 5.5 million tons annually, up 44 percent from prewar years. India remains second, England up slightly, while Germany also falls, with France Japan Brazil and Italy showing smaller but growing use as Italy rises fastest among them.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
India
England
Germany
France
Japan
Brazil
Italy
Commerce Department
Zoning as Aid to Housing and Civic Welfare
The text argues that home ownership and family life suffer from zoning obstacles and property depreciation. It notes the National Government's support for zoning via the Department of Commerce to promote safe, investable residential districts, urging communities to adopt protected zones to encourage thrift and home ownership.
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Ional
Department of Commerce
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May Bowling Adteys
Fred Blycher
Alfred Street
Wairfield Avenue
Aconcrete Black
Richard Keeton & Bros
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Carl Anderson
Brooklawn Park
Pairfield
Seastream & Russell
Richard Kee
Ton & Bros
Boston
Remington Typewriter
Nabulina
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau Us
Dee Dan
General Electric
General Electric Company
Irving Fisher’s Weekly Index
U. S
Walph F. Coug
Nma
Asi
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Ce Areata
STATE
BripGeport Trust
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Hincks Bros. & CO
Main St
Bridgeport, Conn
Equitable Industrial Loan Society, Inc
Fairfield Ave
Conlin Company
Elm St
Bridgeport
Conn
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