Industrial Production Moves Toward Record High Amid Defense Output
Industrial production climbs toward a postwar high as CIO woolen and worsted workers end strike and cotton rayon walkouts ease. Defense orders surge with $2.683 billion in certificates of necessity. Koppers plans multi‑million expansion near Port Arthur Texas and Kobuta Pennsylvania. Steel firms face scrap shortages and possible open hearth cuts. productivity and prices see mixed signals.
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New York
CIO
Federal Reserve
Ieee Seley Gewartiens Peane
Koppers Company
Port Arthur
Texas
Kobuta
Pittsburgh
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Monongahela
Jones and Laughlin
Iron Age, Metalworking Trade
Internat
Nickel Company of Canada
Celanese Corporation of America
Dunn and Bradstreet
Busi
Forged debt note tied to Costello and Lindbergh tale surfaces
The fragmented text recounts Winchell accusing a man of forgery over a 35 year debt, Costello paying cash, and a Lindbergh inquiry where a Morgan partner aided. the tale imagines a TV star’s link to the case, noting the inscription To Frank Costello, who still has his Constitutional rights, and closes with a remark on farm life and white bread.
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Costello
New York
Pop
Lindbergh
Hopewell
New
Ayer
Frank Costello
Behind the News In Business Flags 1920s Rackets Ties
The March 17 report links Pennsylvan ia Exchange Bank with banker William H Gallagher to past prohibition era figures Bill Dwyer Frank Costello and Mob ties. It traces Fahye aliases Waxey Gordon Jim Collins and a Mergenthaler Linotype Co swindle involving forged checks and a $350000 missing sum. Collins serves 7 to 20 years at Sing Sing and hints at Bugsy Siegel connections.
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AcmesAl Alloys
Alabama
Alabama BA
Rebes
American Enka Corp
American Marietta Co
American Trust
Atlanta Gas Light Co
City Auto Fin Co
Eee Auto Fin Co
Bank of America
Nt&sa
Bank of Manhattan
I'S
Bassett Furn Industries
Bausch & Lomb
Black Sivalla & Os
We Bell
Ibc
Esservee
BI Rdg
Ins Co
Shelby
Butler's Inc
ComsosMd
Buffalo Eclipse Corp
Cannon Mills
My Carolina Casualty Ine
Carolina Mtn Tel Co
Caro Pow & Lt Co
Carolina Tel & Tel Co
Chad Hos Mil Com
Ccceeesr
Chase Nat
Seeeess OB
Cable Dairy
Colonial Stores
Cone Mills
evtenes BOM \Creamery Pkg Mfg Co
Dan River Mills
Dan Riv Mills
Dixie Home Stores
Dougies and Loman Iibs
Drexel Furniture Co
Dun &Bradstreet
Ws Edison
Thomas A
Manufactur Co
Erwin Mills
Garfinckel, Julius Ine
Garfinckel, Julius & Ine S
Genuime Parts Co
Gaviock Packing Co
Wy O
Gordon Foods, Inc
Hanes
H Knitting Coweneee
Home Finance
The
Home Insurance Co
Statlers Seerse
Houston Old Field Mall
Lytron Rad & Elec
Inter
Mt. Tel
Irving Trust Co
Ilvey, Jb& Co
Jeff Ltd Life Ins Co
Kaiser Steel Unit
Kellogg Co
Life &Cas Ins Co
Tenn
Lone Star Steel
Long Bell Lumber Co
Lucky
Nicholson File Co
N. C. Railroad Co
Occidental Life Inn Co
Ohio Water Serve Co
Oswego Palisa Corp
Peninsular Tel Co
Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co
Scsccveess
Piedmnt & Northrn
Seaboard
Nat Bank
Southern Airways
Southern Webb Mills
Wdale Mills
Standard Stoker
Oh Loan & Finance State Clase A Seecese
Stonecutter Mills
Stromberg Carisn
Ms ‘Strombrg Carisn
Saco Lowell
Talon, Inc Cneeeeeenenee
Taylor Instrument Co
Taylor Foods
Scereeees
Tenn Gas
Texas Eastern Trans
Textiles, Inc
Tidewater Power CO
van Camp Sea
Ime
Wachovia Bnk
NEW Ps Aoa
Path Aga
Follansbee As Cenetiae Bank
Son
Pennsylvania Exchange Bank
William H. Gallagher
Gallagher
Bill Dwyer
Frank Costello
Kefauver
Woll
Frank Erickson
Erickson
Riker's Island
William H. Galagher
Kefauver Committee
Rockaway
Manhattan
Follawsbee Steel
Albert Terry Fahye
Pittsburgh
Albert Bennett Fey
Alan Adams Haye
Follensbee
Fahye
Waxey" Gordon
Madison Avenue
Midtown Manhattan
Playboy Jim
Mergenthaler
Globe Indemnity Co
Globe
Collins
Sing
Bugsy Siegel
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By Richard Fiske
Federal Reserve Board
Ence
Interstate Commerce Commission
Paul Owen
Groome-Lackey Bldg
North Main Street
High Point
N. J
the Prudential Insurance Company of America
Home Office
Newark, N. J
Western Home Office
Los Angeles, Calif
A Mutual Life Insurance Company
State of
New Jersey
Winchell
U. S
B&o
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airpl
Bordeen
Borg Warner
Briggs Mfg
Budd Co
Durl Mills
Bur
Calumet & Hec
Caro P&l
Case J I
Caterpillr
Champ P&f
Ches & O
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Colum G&e
Coml Credit
Coml Solo
Curt Wright
del Lack & W
Doug Aire
DuPont
Eastern Alr
Eastman Kod
Elec Auto
Emerson R&p
Firestone
Elec
Gen Foods
Gillette
Goodrich
Goodyear
Graham Paige
Hupp Corp
Tl Cent
Int Harvest
Nick Can
Johns Manville
Kennecott
Libby O F Gl
Ligg & Myers
Lockheed
Loews
Lorillard
Louis & Nash
Mack Truck
Magnavox Radio
Mo KT
Mont Ward
Motorola Radio Murray Corp
Nash Kelv
Nat Biscuit
Nat Cash Reg
Nat Dairy Prod
Nat Dist
NY Cent
North Amer
Nor Pac
Otis Elev
Pac G&e
Packard
Param Pie
Penney JC
Penn-Dix
Penn RR
Pepsi Cola
Philco Corp
Phillips Pet
Pitt Scr&b
Pullman
Pure Oil
Radio
Radio K
Rem Rand
Repub Sti
Reynolds B
Sears
Socony Vae
Soy Pac
Sou Ry
Sperry
Std Brands
Cal
Std
Stevens JP
Stewart Warn
Studebaker
Swift
Tex Co
Tex Gulf Prod
Tex Gulf Sal
Textron
Timken
Det Ax
Trans & West Air
TransAmerica
Union Carbide
Union Pac
United Airs
United Aire
United Corp
United Fruit
US Pipe
US Rubber
US Smelt & Ref
US Steel
Vanadium
Vick Chem
Va Caro Chem
Warner Pict
West Mary
West Union
N. C
Enterprise
News
Leslie Gould
Tom Dewey
Banking Department
Roosevelt
My Collins
Mergenthaler Linotype Co
Nairn Morness’ Linnoleum Tile
J. D. Rike & Son
S. Main ST
Teletronix
New Highland
RCA Victor
Teletronix, Inc
Main ST
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