The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-28

But the reOpenlng of banks
on a sound basis after a ma
tiOnal holiday, the launching
of public works on a large
scale, and the optimism in
Spired by developments at
Washington have given bust
ness a surge far in advance of
the usual spring activity.
The big brewing centers provided
perhaps the most striking signs of
new business. Here are a few sub
stantial bright spots from that
field:
The York Ice Machine Corpora
ton of New York received orders for
100000 worth of refrigerating
equipment. The Mengel Company
received orders for 100000 beer cases
for Anheuser-B Busch Company,
which took an option on another
100000. The Anheuser- Busch Com
pany, in all, has ordered 100000
cases and 100000 gross of bottles.
10000 Get Jobs in st. Louis
A new issue of 177,OO0 shares of
common stock Of the Falstaff Brew
ing Corporation of st. Louis was
offered here at ST a share The
magazine Steel said beer require
ments developed inquiries from
Milwaukee for 1000 tanks; Ohio
Fabricator has taken prices on
$4,000 tons of plate, and a Mil
waukee brewery has ordered 1000
tons of structural shapes.
In st. Louis, legalization of beer
resulted in direct or indirect en-
ployment of about 10000 men draw
ing a weekly pay roll of $25O,OO0.
The Illinois Glass Company rehired
100 men; cooperage industries re-
ported a so per cent business IN
crease and more than 400 former
bartenders are renewing licenses.
In New Orleans, four breWeries
are working on beer and one is in
stalling new machinery, employing
hundreds of men directly or indi-
rectly.
Milwaukee Puts on Men
In Milwaukee, about one thou
sand men were given jobs by brew
ers last week, while about seven
hundred others have new jobs in
nearby breweries. Pabst spent 81
100000 for supplies and equipment.
George P Meyer Manufacturing
Company claims to have $4,000, 900
in orders for bottling machinery,
and has added 235 workers.
In Chicago seven operating
breweries and nineteen new plants
are spending S10,000,000 on equip
ment and supplies.
At Natchez, Miss, the National
Box Company employed 300 men to
work day and night shifts.
In the northwest Arkansas Ozarks
about $4,000 a day is going into
work Of making slaves for beer
kegs.
The stave mills also are booming
in Mississippi, plants near Clarks-
dale and Greenville needing about
two hundred more men. The price
Of cottonwood went up Is per cent.
Lumber Trade Reviving
At Charleston. w. Va, the Owens
Illinois Glass Company reopened a
large bottle plant employing about
1000
At Waterloo, Ia, the HinsOn Man
ufacturing Company received orders
for tire rsadvertising a Mil
waukee brew-to keep seventy-fve
employees working full time for two
months.
The Berghof Brewery, Fl. Wayne,
Ind, is adding 100 men April 5, and
ordered 100000 bottle caps and
100000 labels.
More than 200 men were employed
by lumber mills in southeastern
Oklahoma to meet the demand for
beer barrels.
The Marienville Pa Glass Com
pany will start production Of beer
bottles about April l, employing 10
men, The Macbeth Evans Glass
Company, Charleroi, Pa, received
orders for a million beer glasses.
But there was activity not con-
cerned with beer or its associated in
dustries.
A strike of shoe workers at Hayer-
hill Mass, ended and other labor
troubles in New England were being
solved to permit revival Of activity.