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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran true to form last week; most commodities rose because of speculative war stocking (including heavy copper and rubber buying by Germany). Instead of following the pattern, U. S. commodity prices marched downhill like stocks (the Bureau of Labor Index remained at its low; Dow-Jones and Moody commodity indices each fell over a point). Something besides war fear was obviously at work...
...Indiana farmer (he was born in Illinois, educated at Indiana's De Pauw University), had words of praise now that the war was over. He described Willkie as one of the outstanding proponents of private enterprise, "who has done a real job of selling electricity at low rates...
...text: Tennessee was losing T.E.P.'s taxes, was losing a company that had given good service at low prices, was buying T.E.P. "for about four-fifths of its real value." "Our hope," he wound up sardonically, "is that they [Tennesseeans] will never be required to defend a business of their own against Government-subsidized competition...
...first half of 1939, on sales down to $342,788,293, Chrysler's write-off was upped even further to $11,311,840. Result: its half-year earnings amount to 11.5% of the assets on its books. Further result: a clean capital structure, written-off assets, low costs-all of which promise that if business gets better Chrysler profits will pyramid, if it gets worse Chrysler will be able to take...
Henry Wallace's Department of Agriculture winced at the facts. The Department of Commerce reported that only 3,327,000 bales of the 1938-39 crop were exported, a 60-year low, 40.6% less than the previous year, 69.4% less than the high of the 20s (10,927,000 bales). To top this, the Census Bureau announced its count on the U. S. carryover of cotton: a record total of 13,032,611 bales, up 1,499,172 from last market year's hoard...