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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since July 27, the Department of Agriculture has made subsidy commitments on 5,700,000 bales against total exports of only 3,362,000 bales in the cotton year ended July 1, 1939. The balance of the subsidy fund should account for another 600,000 bales at $1 a bale...
¶ a yard); when cotton is rising, textile fabricators like to buy for future use in hope of inventory profits. Last week's cotton buying was paralleled by a rush to buy cotton grey goods: sales, 100,000,000 yards, up 80,000,000. This piling up of inventories...
¶ At the end of August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the...
¶ The November exports trade of the U. S. (reported last week) totaled $287,063,000, off $30,000,000 from October. Principal increase: aircraft, from $3,025,000 in October to $6,760,000. Other rises: meats and lard, iron & steel mill products, electrical machinery, automobiles, parts and accessories...
¶ Most business and Government-guess-timators agree that in the first half, 1940 business will be down from fourth quarter 1939, but it appeared that one cushion which may pad the fall might be auto production. The fourth quarter of the calendar year is first quarter of the auto...