Muscle Shoals Nitrate Plant Proves Worth In War
In Alabama, the TVA revived the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant once idle after World War I. Now a dual producer, it yields ammonium nitrate for munitions and fertilizer, phosphorous for incendiaries, and calcium carbide for synthetic rubber, under TVA engineers Copson Tarbutton and Miller.
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Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Authority
Amatel
England
Njilson Dam
Ala
R. L. Copson
TVA
Department
Nernst
Bosch
Haber
Germany
United States
Chile
Sheffield
Tthey
End of Selling Pressure Gave Stocks a Week Boost
Stocks rose after a Monday dip as the market ended selling pressure and moved toward year highs. Higher grade shares led gains with steel, rail, utilities, and select industries posting advances as car loadings and retail trade improved.
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New York
Wall Street
Chrysler
Allis- Chalmers
Firestone Tire
Goodyear
General Tire
U. S. Rubber
General Electric
Quinine on Front Lines A Deadly Mosquito Rival
An NEA summary notes malaria as a major enemy in World War II fronts from North Africa to the Pacific. It explains quinine’s historic role, stockpiling by doctors, and the cinchona bark origin with Dutch cultivation proving key to modern malaria control.
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NEA Service
Ashington
North Africa
South Pacific
China
India
Burma
Europe
Ross T. McIntyre
U. S. Navy
Panama Canal
William C. Gorgas
Java
Amazonian
Andes
Charles Ledger
Peru
Ledger
Britain
Holland
East Indies
Jamaica
Aleutians
C R Hog Prices Lower Saturday Reported
Sheep market shows genuine spring lambs with various weight classes and prices. Buyers note bids by weight and quality, including bucks, clip lambs, ewes, and other lambs, with price ranges from about 10 to 95 dollars per hundredweight depending on size and grade.
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Esseer
Rik
Stocks and Bonds of Interest in Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa market notes describe securities and bond activity with NASD disclosure that approvals or rejections of actual bids or prices are not guaranteed and that figures may be approximate.
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Iowa
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Iowa Hog Receipts Show Sluggish Midwest Markets
Combined receipts at 19 Iowa concentration yards and 11 packing plants for 24 hours to 6 a.m. Saturday totaled 49 900 head, down from last week and below a year ago. Prices eased across weights with barrows and gilts mostly 10 to 15 cents lower and heavy offerings noted.
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Iowa
Des Moines
U. 8
S. Dept. Agriculture
Minnesota
Newell Company Secures 11 Contracts for Plant Projects
Newell Construction reports 11 contracts within 60 days valued at over $60,000 for building and remodeling soybean processing plants. Projects span Iowa including Fairfield and Manley, and two plants outside the state at Rock Falls and Sioux Falls. Remodeling jobs include Quimby and Gladbrook.
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Iowa
Jinois
South Dakota
Newell Construction Company
Charles E. Newell
Rock Falls
Sioux Falls
Fairfield
Martelle
Dike
West Bend
Ralston
Sac City
Manley
Quimby
Gladbrook
Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce Prices Ledger
Grain prices include oats No 2 65c No 3 63c wheat age 1.20 No 2 1.16 rye No 2 75c soybeans No 3 yellow 1.66 hay and straw bale prices listed poultry prices for fryers hens ducks geese pigeons eggs and wholesale fruits and vegetables with prices for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes apples and potatoes no. 1 cured hides prices for hides calves and horses plus bones and glue notes
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Florida
California
Fey
Texas
Omana Livestock Market Report Omaha
Salable hog receipts 450 total 7000 weak undertone. top hogs 300 lb to 379 lb range up to 13.40 13.45 and 12.90 for odd weights. Barrows and gilts 20 25 cents higher. sows up 15 cents. Cattle week: fed steers and yearlings advance to 25 cents. cows up to 75 cents. bulls firm. Week’s top fed steers 1194 lb at 16.00. calves none. sheep receipts none. spring lambs steady with top around 15.25. New York fractional gains widen in rail loans. mixed gains across issues.
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Omaha
Ins
Kansas
California
Idaho
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
WPA
Idahos
Victory Service League Plans Expansion for 1943 Activities
The Victory Service League announces expanded activities for the second half of 1943. The VSL National Dealer Council in Detroit outlines plans, with G. O. Fletcher of Rapids Chevrolet Cedar Rapids listed among national council dealers. Membership stands at 1,406,000.
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Victory Service League
National Patriotic Alliance of Car and Truck
Chevrolet Dealers of America
VSL
National Dealer Council
Detroit
G. O. Fletcher
The
Rapids Chevrolet Company
Cedar Rapids
National Council
League
Wheat futures rise on strong demand and subsidies news
Wheat futures on the Chicago board edge higher with July at 1.444 3/4 as reports from the Southwest and a bill against subsidies buoy prices. Oats and rye also gain with gains pressured by profit taking near parity, while Winnipeg prices fall.
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Chicago
INS
Board of Trade
Southwest
Winnipeg
Grits Fuel Major War Alcohol Output
S L Fisher grain buyer for Schenley Distillers says surplus grits boost war alcohol yield from 3 to 8 percent. Schenley alone uses 8,000 tons of grits monthly in 24 hour operations to produce over 36 million gallons of alcohol this year for wartime needs.
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ST. Louis
S. L. Fisher
Schenley Distillers Corporation
American Association of Cereal Chemists
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Cattle receipts 200 with calves none. Steer and yearling trade fluctuates with supply. heifers and cows mix of gains and losses. heavy cattle market near new crop highs. Sheep receipts none to 2 500 with strong demand. hogs receipts 8,800 with steady tone. top hogs around 14.10 for choice medium weights.
Saturday's Chicago Grain Quotations
Lamson Brothers furnishes the daily market quotations with H R Mowrey as Cedar Rapids office manager at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
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Chicago
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank
New Pay As You Go Tax Law Aims For Servicemen Relief
The new pay as you go tax law offers servicemen up to 75 percent cancellation of 1942 or 1943 taxes on earned income up to 14 000 and extra exemptions for service pay up to 1500. If 1943 civilian tax is owed it may rise up to 25 percent. refunds may result from overpayments. The law also cancels taxes owed by those who die in active service dating to December 7 1941.
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Ashington
Armed Services
Abundance of Postwar Jobs Is Predicted
New York AP reports Leo M. Cherne of the Research Institute of America foresees labor shortages easing slowly after the war. He warns demobilization could leave up to 30 million jobless, but home front conversion and quick resumption of manufacturing may sustain substantial labor demand for years. The UN conference highlights potential food shortages in devastated nations and growing need for agricultural labor.
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New York
Leo M. Cherne
The
Research Institute of America
Cherne
Parker Receipts Light Prices Firm In Livestock Market
In Chicago 300 hogs sold on Saturday with prices nominally steady. top at $14.10. Government support kept good and choice hogs near $13.75, average $13.74 vs $13.77 last week and $14.43 a year ago. Cattle arrivals fell amid policy stalemate, steers and yearlings steady, cows up 25 cents, bulls at a record $14.65. Sheep prices rose on light receipts.
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Chicago
Burlington Firm to Run Foster Bus Lines Service
The Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized permanent acquisition of the M. C. Foster Bus lines by Burlington Transportation. William Tanzer, passenger traffic manager, says the service between St. Louis and Cedar Rapids will connect with Dieseliners routes and begin Monday.
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M. C. Foster Bus Lines
Burlington Transportation Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
William Tanzer
St. Louis
Cedar Rapids
New glass grinding methods slash production time drastically
In Hackensack New Jersey the Eclipse Pioneer division of Bendix Aviation cuts machine glass grinding time by ninety percent at its optical glass factory. Output now stands at ten times the pre Pearl Harbor level.
Timber treatment cuts need for oversized timbers
Chemical treatments in Seattle boost timber resistance to fire and decay allowing builders to use smaller cheaper timbers to achieve results usually requiring oversize timber or steel and concrete.
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Seattle
Chicago cash provisions and grain prices
Chicago market notes list cash provisions for wheat and corn with prices for No. 2 red wheat at $1.86 and No. 1 hard at $1.47. Corn samples show yellow at $1.05 and mixed at 70 percent, with No. 1 white barley quoted around $1.06 to $1.18 nominal.
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Chicago
New York Produce Prices Mixed Across Poultry and Dairy
Dressed poultry arrivals show larger fowls and scarce eastern fresh chickens while live poultry prices hold firm with ceilings. Butter and eggs in Chicago cluster with steady to higher quotes, cheese and potatoes listed with varied grades and regional entries reflecting market activity.
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New York
Sioux City Livestock Market Report Week Totals
Receipts 1,508 head for the week with 400 hogs. Cattle: fed steers and yearlings uneven. best loads $15.75–$16.10. medium to good $13.00–$14.00. cows $10.50–$13.25. stock cattle weak. Sheep: spring lambs steady. native ewes $6.00–$7.50. pelts $14.00–$14.50. Hogs: barrows and gilts $13.50–$13.60. slaughter sows $13.00–$13.18. feeder pigs steady. top $17.44.
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Sioux City
Soux City
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