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Show Wall'Street Briefs , ... i NEW TORK. May 21 Engineering: Engineer-ing: News Record reports that heavy construction and engineering eon-1 eon-1 tracta let throughout the country thia week totaled f 10,141.00. against $62,121,060 In tha asms week a year ago and iIT.im.oo laat year. Tha annua) election of tha New Tork cotton exchange will be held Monday. Philip R. Weld of Poet A Flag- la named ta auoceed Gardiner H. Miller, who la completing bis second term as president. Raw silk futures reached new low records for all time en tha national raw allk exchange thla week. The movement waa In aympatlty with continued bearlah advlrea from prl maxy marketa In Japan. Electrical World aaya that demand de-mand for electrical equipment and apparatus held at fairly ateady lev. ela In irlnclpai market centere throughout the country during the past week, but buying on tha whole lacked a definite trend. A syndicate headed by Harold O. Ferguson, president of the corporation cor-poration bearing hie name, has purchased control of tha Western National hang of Loe Angeles from George U Alexander. Wada B-Hampton B-Hampton and Charlea W. Llat. McGraw-Hill Conalruetlon pally reporta that the past week'e total value of proposed heavy construe-1 tlon and engineering work In thai United States waa 10l.4..0, the largeat week in May. compared with $0.f.io In tha preceding week and ft5.0.00 la tha correapondlnf week last year. |