War Rationing Cuts Into Retail Inventories Across Lines
The War Production Board imposes sales restrictions on copper screening and other items including autos tires typewriters bicycles and sugar as local rationing boards prepare to manage distributions. Retailers who stocked ahead worry their inventories become liabilities while manufacturers pause durable goods and government spending on munitions climbs. Steel mill output remains high and consumer sales stay brisk though some lines slow after Easter shopping.
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York
Wide World
Standard & Poor's
Washington
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
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Hog Prices Close Week of New Peaks Nominally Steady
CHICAGO AP hog prices closed the week nominally steady as a brief lull limited test of values. A few live hogs were marketed with nominal top at 4.50. Cattle stayed steady and choice steers reached a new peak since 1937. no salable sheep arrived.
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Chicago
Austin Hog Market Prices Compile for Various Weights
The Austin Minnesota hog market reports steady bids for good to large hogs across weight ranges from 140 to 500 pounds. Prices span from about 12.00 to 13.80 per hundredweight, with packing sows listed around 13.60 to 13.80 and several weight brackets showing typical Market quotes.
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Austin
Minn
Rukeyser Attacks Aluminum Firm in False Light Debate
Economic commentator MU STANLET RUKEYSER argues critics distort facts in wartime rhetoric about aluminum. He cites Maynard Krueger and the Fontana project as examples, cites TVA findings, and notes ALCOA’s role and $215 million private funding to expand capacity since 1939.
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Rukeyser
Cedar Rapids Night School Trains Machine Operators
Labor industry and public schools in Cedar Rapids run a united night school program to train machine operators for defense needs. Since inception four years ago the plan leverages Chandler company shop facilities, with five classes operating at night and on Saturdays. The effort, funded by federal aid and approved by the school board, focuses on supplementary training for defense workers, with room for expansion into apprenticeship paths as resources allow.
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University of Chicago
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United States
Cedar Rapids
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Chandler Company
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R. E. McCreedy
G. K. Strausser
H. J. Eberhart
Gazette
H. W. Hopkins
LaPlant-Choate
Jim McCracken
E. H. Christensen
Hogs Higher at Local Market Iowa hog receipts report
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ended 8 a.m Saturday totaled 17 300, down from 23 300 a week ago and 25 400 a year earlier. Prices steady to 10 cents higher with some 18 20 cent gains on lighter loading. various weight ranges quoted from 13.45 to 14.35 dollars per cwt across lots of barrows sows and boars.
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Good Packing Sons
DePuy to Address Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters
Clifford DePuy of Des Moines will address the Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters association Monday noon April 13 at the Montrose hotel. He is publisher of the Underwriters Review and the Northwestern Banker. His subject will be Successful Selling Ideas for Today's Situations.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association
Montrose
Stocks And Bonds Of Interest In Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa market notes show prices from Chicago livestock desk with hogs at top near 1450 1455 per hundredweight and cattle pricing up to 16 710 for 1447 lb averages. hogs active and setting records. sows and heifers up. cows and bulls mixed. fat lambs steady to higher with light weight lambs around 12.60 to 12.85.
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Chicago
U.S
Aegriculture
Eigsink
Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City
U S. Dept Arriculture
Vanderbilt retires from bridge tournament play
Harold S. Vanderbilt, famed as the father of contract bridge and a noted yachtsman, announced his retirement from bridge tournament competition on Saturday night. He will not play for his own Vanderbilt cup this year, a trophy he has won twice since the cup began in 1928. Cup play starts in New York on Monday.
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INS
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Chicago Grain Prices Close Mainly Higher
Chicago market finished higher across grains led by wheat and oats as spread unwinding and Minneapolis strength supported a firm tone. Government winter wheat crop forecast of 625 million bushels fell short of private estimates and last year, while corn disappearance in Q1 exceeded last year’s pace. lard stayed at ceiling prices.
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Chicago Board of Trade
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Chicago Produce Markets Summary From CINCAGO Report
Butter receipts firm with varied prices and scores. Eggs receipts modest, market steady with several quality categories listed. Potatoes arrivals and on track totals show moderate supplies and demand, with several regional price points. Produce futures notes from Lamson Bros. and Co. include butter and eggs standards and regional price spreads. Sioux City live cattle, hogs, and sheep markets show steady to firm trends with specific weight-based price ranges and top quotes.
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Cincago Produce
Chicago
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Nebraska
Bliss Triumphs
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Red River Valley
Wisconsin
Texas Bliss Triumphs
Lamson Bros. and Co
Adverse War News Pressure Pushes Stocks Toward Lows
War news last week depressed markets with the average near year lows as trading rose to 316000 shares. Dividends faced possible cuts with General Foods and Reynolds Tobacco lowering payouts. Rail and steel sectors showed mixed strength while autos weakened on high priced shares. Sugar stocks gained on anticipated tighter supplies amid a volatile week on the New York Exchange.
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General Foods
Hupp
Coca Cola
Pepsi- Cola
New York Stock Exchange
Linn County Conveyances and Mortgages Report Week of April 3
Linn County Abstract records show 72 conveyances and 36 mortgages. Total mortgages amount to 78741.44 dollars for the week, compared with 78 conveyances and 46 mortgages totaling 149544.08 dollars in the same week last year.
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Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Bank Clearing Totals Rise in Cedar Rapids Week
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids for the week ended April 11 reached 1 531 410 03, up from 1 231 216 81 a year ago. The Clearing House reported 1 629 871 81 cleared in the week ended April 7.
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Cedar Rapids
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