Evening star., 1943-04-28
Business Briefs

Electric Power Consumption IN
the week ended April "a rose to
! 1926, ,175,000 kilowatt hours. COM
| pared with 1915 ,974 900 in the pre-
ceding week and was 1897 above
year ago. The West Coast in
crease over year ago was 1851.
while Southern States recorded a
gain of 24.9eo. Other increases
were: Central Industrial, 1887:
Mid-Atlantic. 1917; West Central
| 144ec; Rocky Mountain, 1897; New
/ England. 95ee.
Airliners Carrying 100 Passengers
and operating on 11-hour. one-stop,
coaSt-to-coast schedules were pic
tured for the future by w. w.
! Davies, research engineer of United
| Airlines, in an address before the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
! Breaking Tradition, 18-year-old
Helen Hanzelin started work as
telephone clerk on the floor of the
New York Stock Exchange, the first
woman to invade that hitherto
masculine domain. She is employed
/ by Merrill Lynch. Pierce. Fenner &
Beane and formerly worked in the
financial district as an order clerk.
| Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
| eaarned $4,160,438 or S1.3O a share
In the first quarter, compared with
I S4,124,654 or 81 % share year ago.
| Borg Warner Corp. earned 81
226,316 or 95 cents a share in the
| first quarter, compared with $780,
! OLE or 80 cents a share a year ago.
| Wheeling Steel Corp. earned $961,-
391 or 80 cents a share in the first
quarter, compared with 81 10000 or
$l.31 share a year ago
Gulf Oil Corp. earned s22 981 ,562
or S2.53 share in 1942, against $33,-
568 ,624 or s3,70 share in l941. Fig
ures for 1912 were subject to rene
| gotlation, but after income taxes and
a S5,000,000 reserve for contingencies.
Commercial Solvents Corp. earned
1851 ,629 or 25 cents a share in the
March quarter, against $547,181 or
Il cents share year ago
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana earned
s44,183 1893 or $289 a share in 1912,
against $48.385,967 or $317 a share
in 1941. Sales totaled s449. .O39 $50,
against $416,607,57 in 1941. The
company is completing or has un-
derway construction of new facili-
ties costing around SIS, ,00O, 900, which
will contribute directly to the war
effort. For the most part, the COM
pany is financing this work without
aid from the Government.
Phillips Petroleum Go. earned So
SGT 1874 or 80 cents a share in the
first quarter. against $3,364,551 or
/ 76 cents share a year ago
American Smelling & Refining Co.
earned 81 cents a share in the first
quarter, compared with 80 cents a
share a year ago. Chairman F. H.
Brownell told stockholders He said
the difference In net just about
equaled wage increases put into
effect since the 1912 period.
General Baking Co. earned $780,
064 or ID cents a share in l3 weeks
ended March 27, compared with
$344, ,467 or IL cents a share year
ago.
Bon Ami Co. earned S270,273 or
IS cents share in the first quarter.
compared with s285,065 or 10 cents
a share year ago.
w. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. earned
$500, lot or $500 share in the fiscal
year ended February %, against
1894 ,307. or $500 a share in the pre-
ceding period
General Gable Co. reported net
income of $464, ,620 in the first quar-
ter, against s946,052 a year ago
Provision for Federal, income taxes
totaled $2950,000, against $3,785, 900
a year ago.
Southern Railway net income in
the first quarter was equal to 1921
share, against $217 share year
| ago.