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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1946
Page
17
The piece analyzes a cooling postwar expansion with stalled store sales and rising costs from wage pressures. It notes lower new incorporations, commodity price declines, and mixed earnings from US Steel and others, while investors weigh politics and potential labor strife ahead of elections.
R H Pickford general agent for Northwestern Mutual Life in Cedar Rapids hosted his agency force at a Friday luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. He outlined important changes in company practices and announced Elmer Bergmann as assistant to the general agent. Bergmann, a 1925 UI graduate, has worked in life insurance and since July 1939 served as cashier in the local agency.
Fragmentary text suggests a description of a UN council event or meeting set to occur soon, with missing details on date, location, and participants.
OPA plans add 200 new rent enforcement workers and 400 more this month as it sustains rent ceiling oversight. The rental force totals 6 114, with many staffers also handling enforcement and admin tasks. President Truman backs continued rental controls while decontrolling other sectors and job cuts remain uncertain until mid November.
Specialists in industrial real estate from the Society of Industrial Realtors will discuss rapid expansion of the nation's industrial capacity at the Atlantic City gathering during the week of November 11. Speakers include Robert R. Wason of Manning, Maxwell, and Moore. L. C. Hart of Johns Manville. John G. Jewett of Prudential. and W. W. Hale of Southern Pacific, among others.
The list presents the week's most active New York stocks compiled by James E. Bennett and company, located in the Merchants Bank Building, with William H. Jump as resident manager.
New York stocks rose last week as the cotton market stabilized after a drop to $10 a bale on Monday and Tuesday. Prices recovered after exchanges closed on Wednesday and reopened Thursday, aided by broad positive news including higher industrial production and earnings.
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing reports total net sales of 8.379 million for the year ended June 30 1946 despite a three month strike. Net profit on earthmoving units was 209 228 with 80 cent annual dividend. The firm plans new high speed rubber tired earthmoving units and expands its own dealer network internationally.
About 1000 to 1500 Sing Sing inmates staged a brief noon protest in the prison mess hall over food. Sirens brought 110 extra guards to join 90 on duty. the disturbance ended within minutes without gunfire or injuries.
Machinery firm seeks a proven sales manager with mechanical or combustion engineering experience. Responsibilities include handling and procuring orders, managing dealer and direct sales, and coordinating with sales engineers. Applicant should be a 30s to mid 40s unity-minded individual with initiative.
Eddy Gilmore reports from Moscow that Soviet efforts to overhaul agriculture and crack down on grain theft are yielding a strong wheat harvest and ongoing sowing of new winter wheat. While some regions face delays and criticism, overall activity is high as the revolution’s twenty-ninth anniversary nears, with prosecutions for grain plundering highlighted.
Cedar Rapids youths who swapped games for welding and clerking during wartime are largely returning to prewar activities. The city’s schools and the Y M C A report fewer high school students seeking work, with many preferring part time gigs or babysitting while some still help in hospitals and offices.
A scrambled list of Eastern Iowa stocks and bonds notes with various company names and percentages, followed by a sentence noting fire loss estimates. The passage mixes financial references with a separate line about fire losses being 60 percent higher in the first four months of 1946 compared with 1945.
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