Rail commodity

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Part of The Sugar Cane Planter

Title
Rail commodity
Language
English
Year
1937
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
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DECEMBER, 1937] THE SUGAR CANE PLANTER 47 JUNTA GENERAL DE ACCIONISTAS Y ELECCIONES DE LA "MAAO SUGAR PLANTERS ASSOCIATION" Grupo ge•ieral de los accionistas y de los miembro.s de la Junta Dfrectiva que fueron reelegidos con excepción del Sr. Emilio T. lnf ante que es la p1·imera vez que figure en la directiva. La junta se celebró en la casa social de la asociación en Maao, Negros Occidental. Rail Commodity Movements By LEON M. LAZAGA Traffic Manager, Manila Railroad Company The volume of commodities received in Manila during the month of October 1937, via the Manila Railroad Company are as follows : Tobacco, bales .............. . 3,627 398,523 2,139,000 Lumber, Board Feet ......... . Timber, kilos ................ . Rice, cavanes ...... ,_ ......... . Sugar, piculs ................ . Copra, piculs ................ . Desiccated Coconuts, cases .... . 133,223 60,500 150,024 25,689 The freight revenue car loading statistics for five weeks ending October 30, 1937, as compared with the same period of 1936 are given below: COMMODITIES Number of Freight Cars 1937 1936 Rice .......... •.• ........................... 708 1 Palay ...................................... 119 1 Sugar . . . ................................... 163 Sugar Cane .................................. . . . . . 1 Copra ...................................... 969 Coconuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 84 1 Molasses ................................... . 7 1 Hemp ...................................... . . . . . Tobacco . . ................................... 33 Livestock ................................... 13 1 Mineral Products 366 1 ............................ 1 Lumber and Timber ......................... 173 1 Forest Products ............................ 1 1 Manufactures ................... "' ........... 315 1 Ali Others including L. C. L ................... 3,432 1 TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................... 6,383 1 SUMMARY W eek ending Oct. 2 W eek ending Oct. 9 Week ending Oct. 16 Week ending Oct. 23 W eek ending Oct. 30 ........................ 1,263 1 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : l:~~I 11 1 ........................ 1,357 ........................ 1,375 877 10 62 . . . . . 631 129 2 . . . . . 7 4 324 186 5 180 3,343 5,760 1,230 1,106 1,110 1,179 1,135 Freight Tonnage 1937 1936 8,048 1,464 1,859 . . . . . 6,927 861 215 . . . . . 323 51 4,323 4,011 8 4,513 22,576 58,539 11,656 10,653 10,487 12,983 12,760 1 1 11,658 90 1,725 . .... 4,579 1,397 64 . .... 71 13 4,055 4,622 29 2,531 22,335 53,179 11,664 10,817 10,855 10,113 9,730 TOTAL ................................. 6,383 ! 5,760 58,539 53,179 NoTE--Figures in parenthesis indicate decrease. Please Patronize Our Advertisers 1 1 1 Increase or Decrease Cars Tonnage (169) (3,250) 109 1,374 101 3,134 . .... . .... 338 2,348 (45) (56) 5 151 . .... . .... 26 252 9 38 42 268 (13) (611) (4) (31) 135 1,982 89 241 623 5,360 33 (8) 101 (164) 71 (368) 178 l,S.70 240 3,030 623 5,360 48 THE SUGAR CANE PLANTER [DECEMBER, 1937 ableo CONTENT Page -TERS FROM A FATHEii TO HIS SON 2 ,. .. · . EDITORIA.L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 C.ANCION DE PASCUA Por Evangelina Guerrero . 6 You will never encounter a traffic cop in Bucharest, Rumania, who will bawl you out or go into an argument. If you have violated traftic rules, he will silently take your license number and return to his post. The reason-Bucharest only employs deaf mutes as traffic policemen. A baseball pitcher throws not more than 120 '.fHE BEST STEP TO SA VE SUGAR INDUSTRY halls in a game. IS INDUSTRIALIZATION ................. . 7 Jj:NVOY FOR A CLOSER TRADE ANLI COMMER. .. CIAL RELATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . ~STAS O PERIODICOS EN PROVINCIAS SON UNA TONTERIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 14 THE MARKET .. . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 DIEZ MINUTOS DE FELICIDA'i>' Por Miguel ·Ripoll .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Most of the movie houses along Main Street of Los Angeles, California, remain . open "all night" that is until five in the morning. The balance wheel of a watch vibrates 18,000 times per hour, over 400,000 times per day . American barbers' chairs are shipped to Congo, Africa, where they are used as tribal thrones. On being told that a certain writer was "too caustic," Samuel Goldwyn motion picture producer, replied "To hell with the cost !" A snake's blood has no independent temperature WEEKLY SUGAR REVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 of its own, it is wanned and cooled at the dictate of the earth's temperature. CUANDO VEAS A TU VECINO LAS BARBAS - . - '.A:FEIT:A'R 'PON LAS TUYAS A REMOJAR Por Anser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 THE' O'RACCA CONFECTIONE-RY By M. B. Villanueva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SUGAR COSUMPTION 1927-1937 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 NOTAS PERSONALES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 DE TODO EL MES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 SUGAR BOILING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Outside the how~es of Parliamenf in Budapest, on the windowsills are brass strips fitted with numbered groove~parking plaées for cigars. Tobacco is expensive in Hungacy, and smoking is forbidden in the houses; so a nieinber arriving with part. of his cigar unconsumed parks it in a groo ve, and makes a note of the riumber. Electric advertising space is to be let on the Pyramids according to the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior. Amayra guides of Bolivia will run in front of a trotting horse for 60 miles without proper rest. · AZUCAREROS PREEMINENTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 An octopus with tentacles eight or nine feet long . is so tremendously powerful that it can strip all .MACHINERY MINE AND MILL TOPICS . . . . . . . 40 the flesh from a man in from 15 to 25 minutes. MINAS ........................................ 44 RAIL' COMMODITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 - . . Hitler's success with. the German people was made possible by his oratory. _ Please Patronize Our ·Advertisers