Show FINANCIAL FINANCIL BRIEFS Steel production has ha Jumped four points to 56 51 per cent of c capacity and another week promIses to put the rate rte above Ibo e the 59 9 per cent level leve of Jut July ul which was the 1933 op Iron Age says Increasing cm tl gj lt edI g gha specifications against low Igl priced contracts ha have broucht such luch a heay rush In some lome products produCt that mills mUs fur fear they will wl not be beable beable able to clear clur their books bok by th the end of the Quarter as a required by the code code the thc rev review re- re v view w elates tates The ho magazine Stee Steel reports that 25 leading steel sue producers producer representing 93 per cen cent ot of the country's Ingot capacity had hadan an aggregate loss of I lest Year before to I Payment O n of r dividends and interest e t Operations averaged 31 per cent In 1932 the loss los for the same companies V was S Reynolds Metal companY lisa hu declared a divIdend or of 25 per cent in stock June I 1 to holdings or of record Mn May 75 1 Tentative indications n are that f I earnings i I C of fa i representative t f industrial Ju r j companies companie were lee about three times those ot of the similar simia 1 1933 33 period says Standard Sti Sta- company The 13 first 51 industrial corporations to report show chow total net ot of as compared with a anar year nar ago 0 These TheIl results it 1 U is pointed out out are too fragmentary to be considered con con- modify the and later lter reports may rte rate or of gain rin William Wilam Wrigley company reports March MAch net profit of equal to 93 cents a share or 90 SO cents cent a share a rear ago ACO |