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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankers were meeting again. From all over the U. S. demands that the Exchange be closed poured in on the bankers' meeting. At the last minute, the telephone connection set up between Exchange governors and the bankers failed to work. In the excitement the bankers forgot to man their end of the line...
Commodity exchanges went war-wild. Sugar and wheat, essentials for warring nations and their armies, got away in front and by the first day's end had advanced the maximum permissible limits set by the Commodity Exchange Administration (5 to 8 for wheat, for sugar). Popeyed at the spurt but calculating on still further rises, many a holder of wheat and sugar pulled out of the market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper...
Foreign Orders. By week's end, war commodities were booming. The basis for this boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...
...Production has become definitely the smaller end of U. S. business. Of the average consumer's dollar, 41? goes for goods, 59? for advertising, transportation, an involved system of middlemen, dealers, retailers...
...end the war quickly seemed ridiculously simple to readers of the comic strips last week: send Superman to clean up Hitler. One reader wrote to the Philadelphia Inquirer suggesting precisely that solution...