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...necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads, Va. is the shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game of railroad strategy for the sheer thrill of it. The Virginian is a choice investment. It stayed in the black throughout Depression, earned...
...dreary city in 14 days came James Simpson from India. He resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. A $450,000,000 company, Commonwealth Edison has a virtual monopoly on electric power sales in Chicago's 210 square miles, has never missed paying a dividend. Public Service is a $226,000,000 company serving 6,000 sq. mi. of territory including Cook County outside of Chicago, north...
...smoky Homestead the Relief Office closed down last month for lack of patronage. More automobiles were sold in Allegheny County in the first six months of 1936 than in any other half-year on record. For the first time since the War Connellsville's 38,900 beehive coke ovens, now obsolete, were pouring soot into the murky atmosphere because the steel companies, short of steel scrap, needed more coke to make pig iron. Dispossessed residents of the ovens got jobs coking in what had been their only Depression shelter...
Chief casualty of the famed 1932 crash of Samuel InsulTs public utilities empire was the gigantic catch-all corporation called Middle West Utilities. Not to be confused with Insult's three Grade A Chicago properties (Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke and Public Service of Northern Illinois), Middle West was a holding company for a heterogeneous parcel of small and large utility companies serving 5,321 villages and towns in 36 States from Maine to Texas...
...collieries have been closed because the U. S. now burns less than two-thirds the anthracite it used ten years ago. For this there are many reasons, including strikes, high prices and poor merchandising, which have conspired to advance the competitive position of fuels like oils, gas, coke. In 1924 total anthracite sales were 80,300,000 tons. Last year they were roughly 52,000,000 tons...