Evening star., 1945-08-08
Business Briefs

Electric Power Consumption de.
clined to 4,432 ,304 900 kilowatt hour.
in the week enoed August 4. com.
pared with 4,434,841 600 in the pre-.
vious week but remained 0.79s above
4,399, ,433, 900 in the like 1914 week
reported the Edison Electric In.
Stitute.
Demand Deposits of member
banks in 101 leading cities totalec
s37,533, 100000 on August /. a gair
of S93,000,000 from a week earlier
and $3,936,00o,00 above a year ago
the Federal Reserve Board an.
nounced.
American Telephone g. Telegraph
Co. disclosed the Bell System woulc
spend S2,000,000.000 in postwar con.
struction.
Aviation Corp. transferred checks
totaling Sl2.000,000 to Powell Cros.
ley, jr., for holdings in Crosley Corp
Consolidated Biscuit Co. registered
with the SEC 10000 shares of Az 2,
convertible cumulative preferred
stock to finance expansion and in.
crease working capital
American Woolen Co. declared {
dividend of 81 on arrears on 7e;
cumulative preferred stock, payable
September IL.
Texas Co. earned $26,884,3 1863 OF
S2.39 share in the first half VS.
5,533, $50 or S2.27 year ago.
Continental Oil Co. profit for the
half was S8,860,161 or $189 VS.. S..
607,250 or $141 in the same 1914 pc.
riod. The latest net included $2,.
l50,641 or 46 cents a share from
sale of assets.
Transamerica Corp. earned SILL.
100000 or SLIT in the half VS.. So
100000 or 80 cents a year ago.
North American Co. net for Il
months ended June 80 was S18,748,.
1876 or STA VS.. 19,674,o02 or $i.8s
in the previous year. Orders fol
new generating equipment included
a new 000-kilowatt unit for Pep
cos Benning station here.
Republic Aviation Corp. earned
Sl,550,000 or $l.57 in the first hall
VS.. Sl,808,176 or s1.84 a year ago.
Socony- Vacuum Oil Co. estimated
profit for the half was S21 .O00, 900 OF
81 cents VS.. $31, 100000 or $t.01 ir
the same 1914 period.
Curtis Publishing Co. earned ST.,
599,686 or $6.81 on second preferred
stock in the half VS.. S1,s65, ,65s OF
S14.95 a year ago.
Liquid Carbonic Corp. net for nint
months ended June 80 was S900,2l.
or Sl.09 share VS.. S987 ,431 or Sl.2l
In the same 1914 period.
Engineers Public Service Co. anc
subsidiaries earned $8,156,316 OF
S3.16 in IL months ended June 81
VS.. s5,846,634 or $1.89 in the previou.
year.
Virginia Electric g. Power Co. ne
for IL months ended June 80 wa.
S6,732 ,905 VS.. $4,706, $3.50 in the pre-.
ceding fiscal period.
Warner Brothers Pictures earned
$6,564 ,102 or SLIT in nine month,
ended May 26 VS.. $5,048, ,e51 or sl.3l
year ago.
Purity Bakeries Corp. net for 2,
weeks ended July IA was $1,204,8I'
or $l.56 VS.. 81 ,098, ,48l or SLAP in tn,
like 1914 period.
Federal Mining & Smelling Corn
earned $6Z7 300 or $2.54 in the frs
half VS.. S578,256 or $2.34 a year age
Nehi Corp. net for the half wa
$455, ,304 or AZ cents VS.. SAT .294 O
41 cents in the same 1914 period.
Walgreen Co. sales for July total
ed $10,061 ,483, gain of l.9% fror
a year ago; for Z months, sec, ,04l go,
down 1.6%.
6. C. Murphy Co. sales for Jul
totaled s7,290,436. a rise of $50
from year ago; for months, s5l,
265, 1852, gain of l2.1%.
s. H. Kress Co. sales In July to
tailed $9,448,414, a drop of .7qs fror
year ago; in z months, $66 ,005, ,54.
= decline of 1.3%o.
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad OF
dered 1000 steel hopper cars fror
Bethlehem Steel, Ralston Steel Ca
and Pressed Steel Car.