Behind The Scenes
In American
Business
HEADLINES—France will im
port 1,000,000 bushels of durum
wheat from the United States this
year . . . European business men
send gold and capital to America
for safekeeping . . . Montgomery
Ward earned $19,210,029 in year
ending January 31 against $20,-
190,914 in preceding year
1937 income tax receipts expected
to show increase of 25 to 30 per
cent over 1936 . . . B. F. Goodrich
Company announces it has perfect
ed rubber springs for automobile
chassis . . . Automobile production
increased last week as a result of
a demand for new cars . . . Upturn
in cotton textile industry forecast
by Association of Cotton Textile
merchants .. . Steel production
rises to 32.1 per cent of capacity.
GOOD NEWS—The cost of living
continued to declinfe last month ac
cording to a survey made by the
National Industrial Conference
Board which showed that food
stuffs purchased by the American
housewife went down 2.3 per cent
last year, rents one-half of one
per cent, men’s clothing 1.1 per
cent and women’s clothing seven
tenths of one per cent. While
these declines are not very great
they indicate that the American
dollar will go further this spring.
Two other important family items,
the cost of gas and electricity were
unchanged last month while the
price of coal was up one-tenth of
one per cent.
THINGS TO WATCH FOR —A
new motor car by Ford, smaller
and cheaper than any one on the
market today, with a welded tubu
lar frame ... A tiny electric
shaver for women to be introduced
by Shick . . . Corn on the cob in
dividually wrapped in a new parch
ment paper . . . Cosmetics for me
chanics and factory workers to
protect faces from heat and dust.
A new safety belt to keep the
children securely ‘fastened in the
back seat of the automobile . . . .
An electric toothbrush made by the
Motodent Company . . . Decks of
cards with 5 suits for poker play
ers ... A device to cook food by
radio waves t . . Tests by West
inghouse show that a 14 pound
ham which normally takes 4 hours
to cook can be done to a turn in
20 minutes when cooked by radio
waves . . . Higher prices for knit
ted dresses if the demand for wool
and worsted yams increases.
SIDELINES Many farmers
in the past few years have found
they could add a few extra dollars
checks
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to the yearly family income by en
gaging in a sideline business. In
New England, for example, a mar
ket for the use of hardwood has
been opened by the Brown Com
pany, Berlin, N. H., which has de
veloped a new use for hardwood
pulp in the manufacture of rayon,
plastics, etc. Farmers now can
sell their hardwood for as much as
$7 a cord. Last year this one con
cern used more than 100,000 cords
of hardwood. In New York state
farmers will obtain a cash income
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more than 3,051,000 trees were
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