Show I Wall Wali Street Briefs i v NEW YORK April 7 1 Big APO-Big Big business busi busi- n ness oes Is reported by American Machine and a ad nd Foundry for the first quarter o or d den ers booked amounting to about 0 00 In x to In the first t q quarter l last J year Sales blued billed totaled 9 against a year ago Empire Gas and Ku Fuel l company has has- p placed laced orders for about ton tons o of 2 Inch 20 pipe W which tor s W went ent id to Youngstown Sheet and Tube and and- 1 tons ton to Chalfant Chaifant Co T The he line will wll extend about miles mile f from rom Amarillo Tex to Oklahoma and 1 K Kansas ansas Sales of peoples people's Drug Stores for th the f first quarter were an In In c crease of over the same l last ast year Net profit of the Great Atlantic led and Pacific Tea Company of America and antt s subsidiaries for the year ended a ary ry 58 II was 5 Magnolia Petroleum company his ha reduced re- re re- re d crude oil In Kansas Oklahoma a and nd Texas 6 to 15 cents a barrel new prices ranging from to 1145 A decrease of shares share In th the floating floating- supply of United Dotted States Steel c common at tile the end of the lb first quarter I Is s Indicated by brokers brokers' holdings amounting to shares share or 2759 per vent cent of the total issue lisue or DT shares against shares December 31 Holdings of Investors March 31 wera shares chares against three months previous r Reports to from reps cities cities' v of the United States shows howa a t total tsi value of building building- for March of against In cry ary and In March last hit year This indicates a gain of per cent over tile the short month of February but a g decrease of per cent from March a a. ago S All MI and members of th the ix x committee of the Southern Pat Pal cUte company were reelected today at a meeting of the directors |