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...peak railroad year of 1926 Westinghouse Air Brake made $10,000,000. A Mellon (Richard K.) sits on the board but even the Mellons could not prevent the company from losing $600,000 last year. So far this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger...
Published in August by Macmillan, New York, the work deals with the reign of Phillip the Prudent, under whom Spain reached its peak and began its decline, thus bringing to a close the history of the Empire at home and abroad from its beginning to its downfall under Phillip...
Procter & Gamble may be many years the junior of Colgate but its profits are bigger, more consistent. Its peak year, curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...
...Aviation (BEX) for low priced issues seem to hold distinct possibilities. We still like Southern Pacific (SX) among the rails, and oddly enough there ought to be two or three points in National Power and Light from around 8, in the utility section, which is now probably at the peak of its disrepute...
...fashioned a film in which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered...