Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First speaker was Chairman James Augustine Farrell, president of U.S. Steel and leading spirit of the council. Predicting greater business volume soon, he commented on the rising proportion of manufactured goods in exports, found significance in the fact that last year's gain was "achieved in precisely that element of our trade that is directly responsible to merchandising skill and enterprise...
...single and most significant part of academic history, however, in 1929-1930 relates to finance. In this immense and diverse field the most important section is the increase of current income. The increase of current income finds its largest element, as a point of application, in the salaries of teachers. Those salaries continue to rise at a rate not unlike that which obtained between 1913 and 1925 which was 100 percent. The income of the American college is normally derived from three sources: first, the fees of students; second, the income from endowment; third, annual contributions made by graduates, supporters...
Meanwhile business conditions fall to improve materially and large operators, wary of relying too heavily on expectations after their experiences of this spring, await the long-heralded upswing. That it is bound to come is a foregone conclusion; the time element is the important one now. And when it does come and prices start up again, the public will jump in just as it did last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack...
...under the protective wing of monopoly prices. Still others think the change once adopted will be permanent. Book publishing has the character of a monopoly industry, and consequently prices have always been a question of tapping the demand curve at the most profitable point. The introduction of the competitive element in the form of a price war might well uncover the fact that publishers can make more money out of increased sales resulting from price reduction...
This country's mania for stock speculation seems to have subsided for the time being at least. The stuation at present with money extremely cheap and security prices staying at about the same level would seem to indicate that the speculative element is going to wait for actual improvement in business conditions before giving any substantial support to the market...