Word: bradstreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
Such figures as these last week made John Businessman sit up and pinch himself to make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...
...high level at which retail distribution is being maintained, the broadening of the wholesale buying to nearly double last year's total in some divisions, and the rapid rate ai which industrial operations are being resumed form some of the more reassuring phases of the major trends."-Dun & Bradstreet...
...shift of sentiment toward NRA was brought about in part by Industry's realization that the days of cut-throat competition and laissez faire are over. Few industrialists want them back Many of them would agree with NRA' s Divisional Administrator Arthur Dare White- side, Dun & Bradstreet executive, one of the most experienced practical businessmen in the Administration, who said last week: "It is obvious in retrospect that four years ago this month the old industrial order which existed for generations broke down forever. Today we have set up a new order which has been built...
...manifest immediately following Thanksgiving, and to the breadth of the Christmas demand was added the acceleration incident to the opening of an entirely new field of merchandise revenue [liquor]. . . . Reports are nearly uniform in placing the season's volume at the best level in two years."-Dun & Bradstreet...