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...question of whether the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said yes. But the two got along well enough for SEC to announce progress toward "a harmonious relationship." Few days later, Chairman Douglas published a statement in The Annalist offering SEC's help in whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends. Finally, though the Senate took Franklin Roosevelt's advice and voted down the suggestion that PWA be prohibited from further building of power plants in competition with...
...first time since mid-March The Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices moved upward. High-grade bonds continued a steady improvement begun six weeks ago. The stock market after a 1½ month long irregular rise notable even in the depressed railroad and public utilities, stood still-but odd-lot traders, who have been buying against the trend, suddenly switched to selling...
...long analysis of some of the Lundberg figures, the Annalist said last week: "No 500-page book on economic history can escape containing true statistical statements but Mr. Lundberg's book has come surprisingly near that achievement." More open to question, however, than Ferdinand Lundberg's facts are the inferences he draws from them, unfailingly deducing sinister motives for acts often quite innocent...
...First extra session convened March 9, 1933. the week after he took office. *Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Weni-vvorth Sprague, in an address before the New-York Chapter of the American Statistical Association, published last fortnight in the New-York Times'?, Annalist...
...according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities with 1913 as 100. For its old-fashioned readers the Annalist also calculates its wholesale commodity price index in terms of old gold dollars. Last week, in Roosevelt dollars, the index stood at 139.3, in Hoover dollars...