West Stocks End Higher Despite Narrow 1947 Range
Western stocks on the San Francisco exchange closed 1947 with an average of 51.60 for 30 stocks, above 1946. Total volume was 10,753,200 shares valued at $169,952,234. High year price 52.93 on Oct 20. low 43.84 on May 19. Mining star San Mauricio traded 2,998,744 shares.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Stock Exchange
San Mauricio Mining
Philippines
Transamerica
Kaiser-Frazer
Air Force and Aviation Week clash over XS-1 supersonic claim
The Justice Department may probe a dispute sparked by Aviation Week about the XS-1 rocket plane's claimed supersonic flights at Muroc. Air Force officials withheld details, while magazine editors insist on a uniform security policy and publication of the faster-than-sound data.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Air Force
Justice Department
Aviation Week
Muroc
Calif
Secretary of
Defense Forrestal
Robert Hotz
FBI
Hotz
Robert H. Wood
Air
Symington
Department
Charles Yaeger
Yaeger
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Simple Suggestion Nets Salvo $2140 for Timber Plan
Paul Salvo of Atlanta received $2140 under the armed forces civilian employee suggestion program for proposing that the Army and Navy use timber from their own reservations instead of buying elsewhere. Washington engineers estimate the idea will save the government about 3.58 million dollars in timber purchases. Salvo, formerly with the engineer corps in Atlanta, is now a lumberman in Durham North Carolina.
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Atlanta
Paul Salvo
Army
Navy
Salvo
Engineer Corps
Durham
N. C
Washington
Timate
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Blair & Co
Pg&e
Department of Justice
W.S. Lackner
Pioneer Hotel
REAL
Kampmeier Realty Co
N. 6Th Ave
Cash & Carry Pick-up & Deliv
Catalina Cleaners
N. Campbel
Frank Dawson Motor CO
North Sixth Ave
Levis
General Electric
Northern Electric
Alka Seltzer
EPSOM
Cannister
Owen
Mary Anne
Anil Ae
Dante
Ves
Gerbers
Florida
Queen van Dyke
White Owl
Carton
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