Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-18
BUSINESS
BRIEFS
Railroad Freight Lo:

RailrOdu FREIGHT LOadingS
dropped to 48O.647 cars last
week. the smallest total since
the week ending last January
3. The drop was due to the
steel strike and Labor Day.
The total was 63.442, or lit
per cent below that of the pre-
ceding week and 185,576 cars,
or 27.9 per cent. below the cor
responding week of 1958.-As-
ISOLATION Of American Rail-
roads.
Intercity Truck Tonnage In
"a metropolitan areas in the
week ending last Saturday was
up as per cent from the cor
responding week last year. Last
week included Labor Day. At
this time a year ago a strike
caused a general Stoppage of
trucking in the West. Last
weeks tonnage was down 1874
per cent from the. preceding
week. American Trucking As
sociations. - ~l
Heavy Construction Contract
awards for the week ended
Monday amounted to $298.5
million, bringing the total for
SO weeks this year to $15,452,-
500, 900. or S per cent ahead Of
last years pace. The latest
weeks total was made up of
$l72.6 million in private con.
struction and 1888 million in
public Observation-Disclosures
ing News-Record and Construc-
ton Daily.
Pennsylvania Railroad en-
ployes in the accounting de.
partment at Philadelphia
more than 1,000-have voted to
take a half day of without pay
September rs to avoid addi-
tional furloughs due t6 the steel
strike. The vote was taken
after SO employees had. been
notified they would be fur
Laughed. 3-f,-f,
Electric AutO-Lite Co. has
announced the cash purchase
of C&D Batteries, Inc. Of Con-
shohocken. Pa, subject to APP
proval of the latter's stock
holders at a meeting Septem-
Der %. The amount OF the
transaction was not disclosed.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
has disclosed plans to expand
its new fiber yarn plant at
Shelby. N. c.. from 16 to "a
furnaces because of heavy de-
mands for yarn now produced
at the plant. i-f
Western Electric Co., manu-
featuring subsidiary of the
American Telephone g. Tele-
graph Co., has been awarded a
$40, 995,680 contract for con-
tinued work on Nike Hercules
anti-aircraft missiles.
C. M. Hall Lamp Co. sales for
1859 expected to increase to
more than SIS million from
$l0.25 million last year because
of new plant facilities. accord
ing to Harry D. HirSch. pres
ident. The company's new
Clinton. N. c.. factory is in full
operation with both the Detroit
and Clinton plants booked to
capacity.
CARING Brewing Co., subsid-
larry of Canadian Breweries,
Ltd. plans to build a SIC mil
lion brewery at Halethorpe,
near Baltimore with a capacity
Of 100000 barrels a year. Con-
struction will start within a few
weeks.
International Shoe Co. has
added 81 retail stores by pur-
chasing two chains located in |
the Midwest and Southwest. |
The firm bought the Senack |
Shoe Division of Consolidated
SUN Ray. Inc, Philadelphia, for |
more than 81 million and Paul's
Shoes. Inc, Dallas, through an
exchange Of an undisclosed
amount Of common stock.
Glasspar Co. directors at Los
Angeles voted a two-for-one
common stock split. Stockhold-
ers will be asked to indorse the
proposal at a special meeting.
American Metal Climax, Inc,
will build a refining plant at
Carteret, N. j., to produce
germanium metal for the cleo
Jronics industry. The PLANT is
expected to be in full operation