Arms Spending Pushes Golden Twenties Burst Toward New High
The era’s momentum drives industry toward a final quarter surge as war orders top $8 billion and new securities lure investors. Electric output and Bell telephone use hit record highs while August unemployment nears 36 million and GE reports record orders with a quarter of 1937 activity from government contracts.
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Washington
YORK
Bell System
Department of Labor
Emp Syment
Business Week
Pretty Uniformed Nurses Now Highway Hostesses
Eleven Phillips 66 highway hostesses travel 22 states to inspect filling stations and aid motorists. Sylvia Calhoun from Ponca City drives a cream car with first aid kit blankets and ice water to help accident victims until ambulances arrive.
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Sylvia Calhoun
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Phillips 66
Miss Calhoun
Ponca City
Okla
Calhoun
Roosevelt Hotel
Bank clearings show week gain but lag year prior total
Cedar Rapids bank clearings rose last week though not matching the prior year's figure. The Clearing Houses report a total of 1 554 146 07 for the week ending Oct 5 versus 1 657 010 06 for the week ending Oct 7, 1939, with Sept 28 totals at 1 088 024 27.
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Cedar Rapids
Wheat futures climb on Chicago board gains and global demand
Wheat futures rose on the Chicago Board of Trade with December contracts up about 15 cents before trimming gains. Corn, oats, and soybeans also advanced amid eased loan fears and strong outside markets. Export notes cited Europe’s 10 to 20 percent lower wheat output and southwest drought relief influencing sentiment.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Buenos Aires
Europe
Chicago cash provisions and grain prices listing
Chicago API cash wheat No 3 hard 354c Corn No 1 yellow 63 2c oats No 1 white 34c No 2 33 1 3c barley maltine 48 7 63c nominal field seed timothy $3 65 alfalfa $9 000 11.00 red clover $8 000 lard tiers $4 87 bone $4 77 bellies $9 00
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Markets Summary
Chicago Markets show receipts 806 996 for butter and eggs 4140. Creamery firm with a 93 score and 92 price readings. Centralized carrots and storage items listed. Egg prices steady with current receipts 181 sc and extras 27 c.
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Chicago
Futures snapshot from Lamson Bros and Co markets
The column lists butter storage standards and futures figures for November and December with prices around 28.10 and 29.10. It notes October and November references for egg storage and December values in a terse market brief style.
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Lamson Bros
Cedar Rapids Men Helped Build Turnpike
Cedar Rapids workers and machinery helped construct the 70 million dollar Pennsylvania turnpike, a 160 mile express route from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg. The project relied on Cedar Rapids plants to crush and supply 130 thousand tons of limestone and featured federal funding, tolls, and rapid 21 month completion.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Steel Mills
Tidewater
Cedar Rapids
la Plant-Choate Company
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
Kenneth Lindsay
Harold C. Pollitz
Robert Lorig
Clyde Dunlap
Herman Ahrens
York City
Harrison Construction Company
Pittsburgh
PWA
Walter Adelbert Jones
Turnpike Commission
Spring Run
Union Construction Company
Des Moines
Pirinie and Sons Construction Company
Baltimore
Two Credit Groups To Meet Jointly Thursday
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association and Cedar Rapids Credit association plan a joint October meeting at Hotel Montrose. A 6 p.m. dinner will feature Rev. T. M. Nielsen speaking on Americanism. Nielsen wrote How a Dane Became an American.
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Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Cedar Rapids Credit Association
Hotel Montrose
T. M. Nielsen
Kraschel urges more reliance on government aid
Former Iowa governor Nelson G. Kraschel told a Spencer rally that the nation must depend increasingly on intelligent governmental protection to avoid a farm peasantry. He cited Roosevelt and Wallace as framing a national farm policy for the first time in American history.
Farm policy push tied to Henry Wallace election
The speaker argued the election of Henry Wallace would guarantee a continued farm policy as the nation’s permanent program, framing the choice as essential for farmers.
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Henry Wallace
Taft Warns New Deal Drives U S Toward Socialism
Senator Robert A. Taft charged that New Deal policies push the United States toward bankruptcy inflation and some form of national socialism in a Chicago address. He labeled proponents patent medicine economists and warned of growing government control.
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Chicago
INS
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Livestock Market Notes From Chicago Trade
CHICAGO UP HOGS Receipts 400 not enough on sale to make a market top Quotable 6.35 on 230 250 lb hogs week prices up 5 10 cents. top 6.70 for medium weight butchers. CATTLE Receipts 200 calves 100 nominally steady week Fed steers and yearlings gain 26 50 0 cents prime at 13.99 bert Necht steers 13.50 yearlings 13.25. stockers and feeders active 254 higher. fed heifers 25c up. grass cows 25c. vealers down 1.00 to 11.00. SHEEP Receipts none nominally steady week Lambs 25 35c higher to 9 50 bulk 9.25 9.46. yearling wethers steady to 8.25. next western ewes to 4.40.
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Chicago
Bert Hnecht
Vealera
Week's Most Active Stocks
The market showed a disposition to await the axis powers next move while seeking profits. Prices peaked early in the week on a recovery, then declined until Saturday when buying renewed and the market closed firm. Rail equipment shares led gains on large government orders and the AA R railroads forecast 100000 freight cars in 12 months. Rails and metals stayed firm. volume through Friday is listed with Saturday closes.
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Wall Street
Best Group
Association of American Railroads
Market steadies after Friday declines amid war fears
Market activity shows a steadier tone with buying in several sections as selling pressure abates. Shares in Crucible Steel and Thompson Starrett gain on recapitalization news while others peak, but overall turnover remains light and the market closes with mixed results.
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Crucible Steel
Storks
Stiit
Pittsburgh Cruc
Thompson Starrett Preferred
Woodward Iron
Revere Brass
Pere Marquette
Rabus and Toeller Machine Shop Sold to Turner Company
The Rabus and Toeller machine shop at 119 First Street SW Cedar Rapids, in operation 40 years, was purchased by Turner Company. John Turner announced the deal. all land building and tools are included and equipment will be moved gradually to 909 Seventeenth Street NE.
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Rabus and Toeller
First Street
John Turner
Turner Company
Cedar Rapids
Real Estate And Mortgage Reports Linn County 1940 Summary
Conveyances and mortgages recorded in Linn county from Sept 27 to Oct 3 1940 per Linn County Abstract Co show 12 conveyances and 59 mortgages totaling 11754817. Yearly comparison lists September conveyances 232 212 239 252 241 and mortgages 114 112 123 140 152 with September 1940 mortgage total 30450285 and overall September mortgage aggregates for 1927 261192 and 1939 39673485.
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Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Eastern Iowa stocks and bonds price ranges published
The Gazette Cedar Rapids lists recent price ranges for bonds and stocks in eastern Iowa. Entries include Central States Electric Co 4 1989 103s and 6% pledges, Iowa Electric Co various pledges, Interstate Power Co bids, and utility issues with dates from 1920s to 1950s. The quotations are not firm bids but indicate recent transaction levels.
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Central States
Elec
Elec Co
First Ave Holding Co
Roopewelt
Honeymead Products Co
Towa Land & Ride
Iowa Electric Go
Towa Electric Co
Choate Mie Co
Link Belt Co
Penick & Ford
Quaker Oats Co
Hath Packing Co
Rath Packing Co
United Ct & Rys. Co
United Lt & Rys Co
United Lt. & Rys. Co
United Lt & Rye Co
Wilson & Co
Western Union
Central States Electric Co
Real Estate Easement Transfers Involving Naylor and Signers
Property owners C C Naylor Hattie F Moore and Mrs C C Naylor sign a petition to vacate a public highway along sections 22 23 84 7 and grant private rights of way for access to adjoining lands. Ernest Martin Carl Martin Celia Martin exchange deeds. Lena J Gerhardt transfers to Frances M Stanek with covenants and tax conditions.
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C. C. Naylor
Hattie F. Moore
Ernest Martin
Carl Martin
Celia Martin
Lena J. Gerhardt
Frances M. Stanek
Sly
U. S
College Park
Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Grain and Produce Prices
Grain prices listed for Wheat Rye Barley and Soybeans with quality grades and prices. Poultry prices include live weights and product types. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides market figures shown for Cedar Rapids region.
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Association of Railroads
General Electric Co
Winnifeg
Aleat-Owen
Maryland
New England
A Truster Ltd
Jones
Eenae
Seenae
Lamson Brothers and Company
H R. Mowrey
Merchants National Bank
Jan. Reae
Mare
By Naomi Dobbel
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Bedford
W. H. Mussman
McNally and Hobeck Construction Company
Saginaw, Mich
County Construction Company
Carnegie
Andrews and Andrews Construction Company
New
Bates and Rogers
Concrete Materials and Construction
Roxbury
Kittatinny
Blue Mountain
Bates and Rogers Construction Company
Kansas
Missouri
Mullen
LaPorte City
Concrete Materials Company
America
Kraschel
Taft
Chicago Livestock
U. S. Steel Enereure
General Motors Oe
New York Central
Loft, Inc
Int
Merc. Marine
Great Northern Oe
Graham Paige
Republic Steel
Pullman Sueetees Oweae
Anaconda Copper Ee
Penna R. R
McKesson Robbins
Bethlehem Steel
Wees
Jas. E. Bennett and Co
Tel
W. H. Jump
Res. Mer
Youngstown
Federal Reserve
Dow
duPont
Bethlehem
US Steel
Chrysler
General Motors
Daw Chemical
Chemorea
Rabus and Toeller Machine Shop
Real Estate and Mortgage Reports
Ray Ann Strew
Legehorn
Iishts &E
Sta Roosters
Leshorna 6c, Genes Henneries
Michigan
A. G. Heim
W.t.sands
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