European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aget the stars and stripes april Phillips the week in business s tee k ii11 i i d i ii retail Phillips new y o r april 10 favourable trends predominated in All lines of business except retail Trade last steel production and building activity ran a Strong race for top the Stock Market was Strong and the final easter buying splurge was but failed to bring the Las minute Rush which Mer chants had hoped would pm nov shelves of big stocks of satins and other Large Advertis ing some markdowns and a variety of Spe Cial promotions were instrumental in nudging total turnover in stores a Little above the week but Dollar volume forthe country was Esti mated to be about unchanged from a year while most retail establishments Are still doing a whale of a business judged by Normal Sumers still Are not buying enough merchandise of All kinds to Send volume above both the week before and last disposable income Cut by expensive Purchase the continue High rate of National income Anc abundance of goods of excellent Quality land relative stability in prices Are the principal factors that should produce a Rise in retail sales on a year year basis in attempting to find out Why people failed buy As much this year As the charts say they should suggested disposable in come had been in Mosi cases by purchases of such expensive items As television new furniture to go inner and electric apply this resulted in smaller outlays for other most people also have just been through the Federal tax Many had a double dose that included income both have a Way of deflating pocketbooks buying v a new in production Wais set last Mills operated at per cent of and produced h this was the tonnage since tons in the week of March the week before last Mills worked at per cent and turned out tons a year ago the operating rate was and ton nage the explanation for the smaller tonnage and higher operating rate a year when compared Witt this lies in the increase in Copaciu of Mills since last building volume hiked by huge housing project engineering construction awards ran a last week from the week before and compared with a year weeks big volume was the second highest of the year land was bolstered sharply by a housing development award at North Long there seems be no stopping the fast run of building and Congress last week passed a new housing Bill which will put a solid prop under such f activity for Many new records already Are on the books for building and engineering contract let in 37 Eastern states March totalled according to f Dodge Thia was the highest monthly style fac finding Organ Catipo started keeping records Nany years the former High was in june making ready for the march1 aggregate 1 was higher than that in february and 74 per cent above that March the Pih Nerce department added up adj new work put i place in the first Quarter and it to be also at View record and 18 per cent above the firs three months of automobile output High despite Chrysler strike output far Abby what might be expected with Chrysler out of the last weeks Russel ublies totalled this compared with the revised total of 139821 m the previous week a year when sailing without any labor trouble sustained High fete of motor car truck output has found Allied tire makers have stepped up operations in order to keep up with the heavy Demaid f of original for  time since Darly Post operated Ife other Plahte Jot the company stayed put its bar Spiri full six Jayr week against average of five land a had Days worked this other major Industrial indicators held at High operating last paper production was Al per cent of capacity against last week and 87 a year paperboard output was a Little lower than the week but up from a lumber ship ments were t per Ceat above soft Coal production Falls to million tons soft Coal production settled Down to tons from a week earlier and compared with crude Oil output averaged barrels a close in line with figures both the week before and last electric Powe output levelled off to kilowatt this with the week before and a year car loadings at were not much changed from loadings in period and last there was some pickup in business failures from the previous but were under a year and Stul far under the weekly pre War average the Stock Market knocked off work for the Good Friday religious Holiday after scoring brilliantly in each of the Jour earlier More than was added to the quoted1 value of shares listed on the big Board this extraordinary Mark of Confidence in the nations Economy was All the More notable in that the Best advances were scored in stocks the High seasoned securities of american Railroad Bonds lost coincident with a new financing operation by the Treasury department which will result in a net increase of 000 in the Federal debt Brannan Aid resigns to seek Senate seat key West april 10 Albert Jav Loveland has resigned As undersecretary of agriculture to enter the race Tor the Senate in a 56yearold Janes is a candidate for democratic Nomina Tion for the1 sea now held by Bource fire razes radio station april 10 radio station was destroyed Here Early yesterday in a Fine that razed the one Story building in less Hian two bourse framing end for largest c j v v 4 f v of of searing White flame and burning debris snark the end of the Marshall the navys flying this remarkable photograph was at the instant Aii explosion sent the or to the Bottom off its Hawaii base at All seven crewmen escaped from the crippled plane after made a crash Landing at in an engine had forced the plane to v a to maintain Hospital staffs april 10 the veterans administration has called be a s t its plans to dismiss and clinic employees this the a Alao abandoned for the time being plans to close a number of medical but said it will go ahead with the scheduled Dis Missal by next monday of the Agency said veterans administrator a sol it has asked the budget Bureau for a supplemental fund of to keep its Medica 1 personnel employed through tie end next june r lieutenant sought in Hospital escape apr 10 a 34yearblid lieutenant convicted of was sought Here by the air Force and Fri after he escaped from1 an unguarded room at Walter Reed the it Edwin of has been missing since he had been sentenced to Isi years at hard labor following his arrest Lor Deser Tion last 7 he deserted the air Force in in 1947 he was charged mail fraud the Post office depart he was arrested last october in where he was setting pins in a Bowling the air Force judge advocate has not yet approved Bloxham school wets probation april 10 ins a Worcester Junior col lege student was freed on probation for a year after being found guilty of robbing a gasoline station of on March 18 As part on his school probation was granted the youth Wicen police sgt James Chisholm told the court he was studying criminal psychology and staged the Holdup ust to find out How it Felt baby needs new shoes los april 10 after ribbing a nightclub of a gunman Here scooped up a hand us of Ismajl coins the Man agers ill just take some of in the baby he armless pianist astounds doctors with Boogie april 10 Man who bad lost both arms played Barb and Boogie Oogie on the piano in a motion picture surgeons applauded his of West told the american railway surgeons that the performance by an unnamed patient shows what Jean be accomplished when a person is taught properly How to use artificial it the doctor said he thought Man he first came to his rehabilitation Institute in new Jersey Jie the said that after the m3n routine Scicli As lying he was fitted cipo special pairs of Merfel fingers which he Learned to spread to Coyer a Range of the it was not to give at Man an artificial appliance r and turn him he must be taught How to use after Beulig psychologically Kessler  to easter Palm entire family was out where four persons were kitted sunday in the crash of a private plane that took off Here in bad weather because father wanted to get his wife and sons Home to los Angeles for easter Church the dead were identified As Howard of los advertising his and two and weather observers reported bad conditions Over the mountains and through san Gorgonio be tween Here and los but Mccollister was quoted saying he was get Home Tjie family could go to heiress wed to briton april 10 of a British intelligence agent John of yesterday one of the welds wealthiest Josephine granddaughter of the founder of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Oneo americas largest Chain fewer Packel sent to euro april 10 americans Are sending fewer packages of food and clot Europe than they did last cause economic conditions not better the economic operation administration i reported rising Standard living Ace reflected in the fact while s were spent Ocean freight subsidies in the total for fiscal 1990 estimated at about of about 14 per cent under the recovery bears Ocean shipping costs of plies sent from the by tary nonprofit Relief bread Boa fat Ega announced earlier it to end its Ocean freight on Rehe packages sent by urls Aad commercial ship the United the France and in another report released with the completion of its Fout year put Eca said that Ai the end pal Ary it had f in a no e d Moti Worth of for Western f every fourth of by sued in exp nations do first two years of the made possible by trapped on lies Down and to Paiit 4 six Earold Billy playing on the Railroad with a pal when the big engine toward 1 the David Cain jumped feet to a suffered Little want Lay Down in the the the in three freight can he Aslie read comic Mai chewed be Iuni after bayed what when the train w to f Yon the track so just Learned it