Gold demand lifts New York market on slow trading day
Presh demand for gold issues highlighted a slow moving market. Several golds advanced to new 1949 peaks while most stocks held a narrow range with modest gains and losses. Homestake Dome Mines and McIntyre Porcupine hit yearly highs. McIntyre saw profit taking. Alaska Juneau fell briefly then rose. Other gains posted by U S Steel Bethlehem Steel Goodrich United Aircraft Standard Gas & Electric Kennecott Cooper N Y Central Loew s. Few names trimmed: Republic Steel General Motors Sears Roebuck Woolworth Douglas Aircraft American Can General Electric J C Penney Sinclair Oil United Air Lines.
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New York
Homestake
Dome Mines
McIntyre Porcupine
McIntyre
Alaska Juneau
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Goodrich
Standard Gas & Electric
Kennecott Cooper
N. Y. Central
Loew’s
Republic Steel
General Motors
Sears Roebuck
Woolworth
Douglas Aircraft
American Can
General Electric
J. C. Penney
Sinclair Oil
United Air Lines
Altitude Record Set in 1935 Balloon Ascent
The highest human altitude reached was 72 395 feet during a 1935 balloon ascent.
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Balloo
Livestock and Hog Market Report Highlights
Detailed price ranges for produce, calves, hogs, cattle, and sheep from CHICAGO reporting April 2. Notes shifts from last Friday across weights and classes, with top hands and bulk lots listed for stockers, feeders, and slaughter cows. Contains multiple entities including breed categories, weight bands, and price spreads.
Eggs and live poultry prices in Winchester market report
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists Federal State grade eggs with prices for Winchester. Grade A extra large 44, Grade A large 42, Grade A medium 40, Grade B large 37, Grade C 32. Live poultry prices include No 1 quality fob producer's farms with heavy breed hens 4 1 2 lb, Leghorn broilers 2 1 2 lb, Rock Cross broil under 3 lb, Old Guineas 35c each, Young Guineas Leghorns hens Rock Cross Broil 3 lb up Red Broilers 3 lb up and Young Turkey Hens and Toms with various prices.
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Winchester
Coneee
Local Market Prices Corrected Daily for Flour and Feed
Local markets list corrected daily showing prices for flour varieties, corn meal in multiple bag sizes, grain and barley per bushel, and various feeds including egg mash and turkey starter. Prices align with retail and wholesale terms, noting errata and typographical caveats.
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AOS RS Eves Beeaweed Beac Sae
Ees Awengs Cps
Ege
Chicago grains open mixed with slight wheat decline
Chicago grain prices opened mixed on April 2. Wheat edged lower while feed grains held steady. Opening quotes show May wheat at 2.14 and 3 4 7 8 for July and 1.90 1 4 for September. Corn May 1.33, July 1.32 4 3 8, September 1.26, December 1.15. Oats May 69 4 1 8, July 63 4 1 8. Soybeans May 2.18 17 3 4. Lard May 11.52, October 11.62.
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Chicago
Jly
Peach orchard vigil faces frost and wind in Clarke county
All night vigil to light smudge pots at W D Burtner’s 20 acre peach grove at Boyce failed due to 30 degree temperatures and strong wind. Neighbors helped with preparations as blossoms remain in three varieties Shippers Red Elberta and Belle of Georgia. Forecast calls for fair conditions with light frost around 3 am. Lowest temps: Berryville Charles Town 26 Winchester 30. Sunday expects clouds and possible rain with no frost.
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W.D. Burtner
Boyce
Burter
Shipper
Georgia
Clarke County
Berryville
Charles Town
Winchester
Jury Decides Negro Educator Not Removed For Violation
Federal jury found the educator was not removed from the train for violating Virginia segregation statutes but was removed for a reasonable railroad segregation rule. They could not reach a verdict on whether the railroad and Lam beth caused Chance's wrongful arrest for disorderly conduct. The jury awarded $50 on damages if deemed wrongful arrest.
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Virginia
Railrad and
Lambeth
Chance
Hutcheson
Daniel Boone tree once legible on beech trees in Tennessee
The article notes an inscription dating from 1815 on Tennessee beech trees remained readable for a century, fading in the second half of the tree’s life. Growth slowed as the tree aged and the Daniel Boone tree no longer stands.
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Daniel Boone
American Forestry
Tennessee
Budget fight stalls Taft Russell plan in Senate
Budget debate centers on the Taft Russell amendment as 35 Democrats and 19 Republicans oppose it. A separate vote defeats an attempt by Senator Wherry to cut the aid fund ceiling by 15 percent while Taft Russell vote against. Vandenberg backs a conditional aid approach over Netherlands Indonesia policy amid sharp exchanges. Morsey dismisses Brewster risk as hollow. Van denberg warns against placing a price tag on national security as the discussion continues.
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Iowa
Taft- Russell
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Taft
Russell
Vandenberg
Brewster
R-Me
Netherlands
Indonesia
United Nations
Morsey
R-Ore
Congress
Michigan
ECA Chief Sees No Hope for Price Cuts
Taft said Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman held out no hope for a price reduction due to falling prices. He noted Hoffman warned lower prices here would be offset by reduced export returns to aid-receiving nations.
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ECA
Taft
Paul Hoffman
Hoffman
Stassen Deplores Communist Rise and UN Limits
Stassen warned that forces seeking rule by force will prevail if unchallenged, tying Russian communist thought to Hitler's Nazism as a philosophy of materialism and force. He criticized the UN as inadequate yet suggested it could aid free men, and downplayed the threat of atomic war destroying civilization. Churchill lauded Stassen as delivering a thoughtful and powerful address at MIT.
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Stassen
United Nations
Churchill
MIT
Labor dispute slows Chrysler car frame production
The article notes materials shortages ease since the war but stresses disruption from supplier plant strikes. Chrysler faces a strike that halted Dodge DeSoto and Chrysler division frame output just as peacetime production resumes. A Kalisher Frazer price cut of 198 to 333 dollars pleases about 4600 dealers.
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Chrysler
Dodge
DeSoto
Auto maker slashes prices after tax hit and modest 1948 output
The firm cut prices heavily after a $9 million tax payment and a 1948 net income of $10 on 181000 cars. Despite a profitable year, it was not among the industry's high earners, and the large stock meant the sharp price cut was not wholly unexpected.
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K-F
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