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...anthra-city provided 7.9%, oil and gas 38.1%. Only lately have hard-coal men bestirred themselves to fight this trend. Anthracite Industries, Inc., supported by $1.000,000 contributed yearly by 70% of the industry, is now at work on improved furnaces, stokers, plastic cement from coal ashes, etc. Anthracite equipment dealers claim a 50% increase in sales in the first nine months of 1937 in 21 eastern cities against a 7% gain in oil burners...
Next Japanese objective was another so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The first, an impressive array of cement pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north...
...loyal Wells Fargo hero, Joel McCrea does his facile best to cement together these episodic bricks. In the love scenes he has no trouble putting heart into it, since in real life Frances Dee is Mrs. Joel McCrea. In general Wells Fargo is ably cast, and the production & settings are convincingly accurate. Most plausible period scene: gangling Bob Burns, as an ingratiating Leatherstocking of the plains, conversing endlessly with his laconic Indian companion, Pawnee, whose total vocabulary...
...automobiles, coal, steel and cement production, car loadings, department store sales, he predicted next year would be worse than this. For petroleum refining, unemployment and business failures he predicted increases. For electric power and tobacco products little change...
Such technical changes, however, are only an eddy in the economic storm now assaulting stock prices. Judged by indices, this storm last week was blowing as hard as ever. Steel production slumped another two points to 27.5% of capacity. Lumber, power and cement output dwindled. Freight cars were at the year's emptiest. Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed...