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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange (where the Dow Jones industrial average rose 5 points), odd-lot traders for the first time in three months sold more shares than they bought. For four successive trading days small transactions in lots of less than 100 shares-supposed to be a good index of what the public, as opposed to the professional, is doing in the stockmarket-showed sales exceeding purchases. Since the public had been a consistent buyer during the recent market decline, this suggested to Wallstreeters that the old market adage, "The public is always wrong," was still true. But SEC suspected something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC Suspicions | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

When, last week, middleaged, pince-nezed Nadia Boulanger stood up before the Boston Symphony Orchestra and raised a long, bony index finger, it was the first time in its 57-year history that the second oldest U. S. orchestra* had sounded off under feminine leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Skirted Conductor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

Last week, utility and railroad stocks descended to new lows. Moody's commodity index was at 149, the New York Times' business index at 82.3 (down 21 points from a year ago). Car loadings stood at 570,000 cars, down 95,000 cars under last year's level. In Pittsburgh was held a meeting of the men whom depression hit first and hardest, the presidents of railroads. Although they offered no supporting facts, they strongly sustained each other's sentiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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