Mid Year Trade Barometers Peak As War Looms
The AP index of US industrial activity reached the highest mid year level in a decade at 105.4 percent of 1929-30, helped by expected arms orders and defense spending. Railcar orders, plant expansions, and aviation growth signal a summer of heavy industry, while European trade remains constrained.
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Wheat Futures Slide On Chicago Board Trading
Wheat and corn futures showed a weak tone on the Chicago Board of Trade. Corn fell more than 3 cents, wheat dropped to near season lows, and rye oats and soybeans also slipped with July contracts among the least down. Weakness tied to crop prospects and demand concerns, with Kansas City leading downturns and large wheat receipts reported at major terminals.
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Markets Update From Chicago Produce Trade
Chicago AP reports varied wholesale prices and arrivals. Butter receipts 1,234.010 firm. EGQS receipts 18,701 steady. Potatoes arrivals 195 on track. U.S. shipments 1,131. California long white and Bliss Triumphs priced, with several state cobblers and markets listed. eggs refrigerator standards noted. S. J. Koch named regional representative for Bastian Brothers of Rochester.
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Chicago Grain Quotations Reported by Lamson Brothers
Furnished by Lamson Brothers and company with H. R. Mowrey as manager. Cedar Rapids office located in 503 Merchants National Bank building, phone 2-3141.
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Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank
Vitamin Rain Units At Cedar Rapids Plant
Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids has operated a new vitamin rain room since May 6. Three units mix vitamins into puffed wheat and rice from 7 am to 11 pm daily, with automated controls and a drying process. The setup uses vitamin B-1 G and D, with expensive ingredients and new equipment adapted from other industries.
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Quaker Oats
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Vitamin Process Sprays Nutrients Onto Cereal
The passage describes pressure tanks supplying liquid vitamins for a new vitamin process at Quaker Oats. The puffed wheat or rice is exploded from a drum into a stainless steel shaker where vitamins are sprayed in a fine rain onto the cereal. The liquid exits through a tiny nozzle, then the cereal passes to drying drums and the packaging department.
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Vitamin Rain
Cherry- Burrell Corporation
Quaker Oats Company
Landis Joins Public Finance Service as President in Cedar Rapids
Russ W. Landis, 12 years with Beneficial Management, becomes president of the Public Finance Service after offices open at 203 Dows Building. He moved from Detroit and lives at 415 Twenty-second Street NE with wife and two sons. Cornell graduate formerly resided in Cedar Rapids. Assistant Doyle Andrews and Mrs. Andrews occupy 341 Twenty-second Street NE.
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Beneficial Management Corporation
Public Finance Service
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Detroit
Twenty-second Street
Cornell College
Cedar Rapids
Doyle Andrews
Refugees Arrive as U S. Women and Children Reach Palestine
More than 50 American women and children refugees, including missionary teachers and families of foreign service officials, arrived Saturday in Palestine from Egypt. The report from Chicago livestock markets covers hogs, cattle, and sheep with price ranges and notable trading activity in various weight classes and grades.
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Stocks And Bonds Of Interest In Eastern Iowa
The Gazette financial editor notes quotations show price ranges from recent transactions not firm bids. Readers with interest in unquoted issues may contact the office for details. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Kitchen Accidents Reported More Frequent Than Other Rooms
A study notes that accidents occur more often in kitchens than in any other room of a home. Researchers cite slips, cuts, and burns as common injuries among cooks and family members.
Flag Aboard The Dragon Signals Rescue For Sondra
The chase tightens as O'Moore commands the Glory and Starbuck spots Ikeda approaching. Kemp shields Sondra amid gunfire while Ikeda trains an automatic on the girl in the water, threatening a dangerous clash at sea.
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Bank Clearings In Cedar Rapids For Week Ending June 29
Cedar Rapids recorded 1,103,484.05 in bank clearings for the week ending June 29, up from 1,009,864.65 a year earlier. The week ending June 22 totaled 1,119,689.72.
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Metals markets steady with mixed gains and losses
Copper and tin hold steady while lead and zinc show modest moves in New York and East St Louis markets. Spot and forward prices cited for electrolytic copper, tin, lead, and zinc with slight regional variations. Aluminum antimony quicksilver platinum wolframite and other domestic ores listed as unchanged.
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Real Estate And Mortgage Reports And Market Slump
Trading remained quiet with 40 000 Central States Electric shares at 1 20, and overall turnover at 170 000. Prices drifted lower with few gains, steel production down ahead of next week’s holiday, and mixed moves among major groups including utilities, rails, and chemicals.
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Central States Electric
Public Service of
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York
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Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Grain and Produce Prices
A compact list of Cedar Rapids market quotations covering grains such as Wheat No 1 and No 2 Oats Corn and Soybeans with varied bids per bushel. Also includes baled hay and straw prices, poultry and fowl prices for hens roosters and chicks, wholesale fruits and vegetables with limited local items, and hide prices for No 1 and No 2 grades.
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Papal Wishes Sent to Roosevelt Envoy Taylor
Luigi Cardinal Moghese, papal secretary of state, sent Pope Pius XII’s best wishes for a speedy recovery to Myron C Taylor, Roosevelt’s personal representative to the Vatican, recovering from an operation. Baseball players born when Connie Mack became a manager are ten and now in active major league service.
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Luigi Cardinal Moghiene
Papa Pius Ntl
Vmyron C Taylor
Connie Mack
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Major League Service
Week's Most Active Stocks After Nomination Shift
Wall Street rebounded after Wendell Willkie was chosen as the Republican nominee. Utilities led gains amid renewed activity while several issues sagged, notably Woolworth, as fears of German aggression weighed on English possessions. Defense stocks like Packard Motors and Budd Wheel attracted buying.
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