The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-25
TRADE
WINDS"
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NEW Y0RK-Defense pro
gram expenditures currently
running At about 81. 900. 0o0,-
600 monthly Business
loans again show increase
suggesting continued high
rate Of activity -. Engineer
ing construction contracts 40
per cent ahead Of year ago; ;
almost all gain public con-
struction awards.
Civilian steel needs 70 Be hit
hard BY defense requirements i.
Great Lakes ore fleet. consisting
Of zs2 vessels. operating at ca
paeity.
Hardware sales 20 per cent
ahead year ago Alabama and
Georgia textile mill operations
closed because Of power shortage
/. The 10-eent price line Of
mems socks viii soon be eHnl-
mated due 10 higher wages, taxes
and raw material costs Deal
ers report 1912 model radios sell
Ing freely; mostly high-priced
Items Retail food sales aver
aging IS per cent ahead year
ago >.
Gnocers see pending rise In /
prices A. orderly; fear attracting
Leon Henderson's price-fixing at
tention -. Dupont reduced Nylon /
yarn prices from 10 to 30 cents a
pound; reduction in Nylon hosiery
prices up TO stocking manufacture
srs Demand for dry goods
TO hold Mems wear
factories can't FIJI dealer demands;
'ame goes for women's wear =.
Retail trade sales volume averag-
ng 10 per cent ahead Of last week.
BONDS - Financial circles ex-
oect a rapid succession Of govern
nent bond offerings over coming
months As result Of defense pro-
ram requirements Investment
retained In Philadelphia
LIST a ref avs Of 1857
.. Held for yield: York Railways
st mtge 5s OF 1e47 Pacific
Telephone q Telegraph &C" SIS
II 1855 held for investment
Youngstown Sheet a Tube COW
Ieb a Of 1e4s has only average
Ippeai at these levels.
COMMODITIES - Only damage
n wheat growth evident 20 far
J In Texas and Oklahoma; not
much insect infections in eastern
'ebraska and northeastern Kan
as or parts of Illinois, Indiana
nd wisconsin Demand for
pot cotton gives farmers $40 a
ale profits TO repossess- loan crop;
-ading selling on part OF Bombay
most completed.
Since start of World War II,
reat Britain lost AZ destroyers;
'es not include battleships, SUBJ 4
arines, etc. American ship Il
ards currently producing at aver a
ye rate Of 1857 tons n day a
merican aircraft manufacturers h
ided 1884 employees since Jan. Ii
1871; total now 237,267 and .
'esn't take in sub-eontractors c
{. Vultee Aircraft now operat- [
g on straight-line mass produc- =
on basis Shoe output this a
,ar. regardless Of nearby letdown L
activity. estimated at 450,-
10000 pairs; mostly military 7
'eds New freight cars on s
der for major railroads largest \
tai for any time since 1924 =
United States Rubber perfected !.
owder II blown into inner tubes =
Ill eliminate static interference :
motor car radios Trans !.
tlantic clippers built TO carry :
500 pounds OF mail; yet some :
w carrying as much as 13,400 :
'unds The 30-mile airline "
ON Wilmington. Cal, to Avalon, .
atalina-shortest In world - has :
rried more than 1000 passen- n
'rs In past ten years without a d
ngle fatality Consolidated n
n Electric Light a Power Co. N
Baltimore. Md.-descendant OF e.
h Light Co. OF Baltimore fran n
Used June 10. 1s16-hasn't failed
deliver service in any day these