Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel and iron trade continued production at its recent sensational levels, but with an evident slackening of future contracts, as shown by the falling off in U. S. Steel's unfilled orders. Nevertheless the sensitive stock market continued its decline, now, despite temporary rallies, a severe one. The peak has obviously been reached for the time being in the building trades, and in New York alone over $100,000,000 of new construction is reported to be held in abeyance until the rise in wages and materials subsides. The credit situation is, however, reassuring, and, as Secretary Mellon points...
...suggestion that the peak of prosperity is no higher than the present...
...pronounced downward movement on the Stock Exchange has given rise to conjectures by the business world as to whether the peak in business activity has not already been reached. The well known ability of the stock market to " discount" future conditions has led some business leaders to anticipate the Autumn situation this year with less complacency. Industrial news, containing as it did reports of price cuts in oil and weakness in cotton and sugar, tended in general to confirm such less optimistic opinion, although April pig production set another high record. The strong banking position, however, indicates that should present...
...power to relieve the taxpayer without impairing the credit of the nation; for the future credit of the nation and relief to the taxpayer are in the long run inextricably interwoven. I believe that although we are still in a series of transition years we have already passed the peak load of taxation, and we may hope soon to have left behind us the calamitous years of trade depression. But our hopes may be frustrated by untoward events on the Continent or untoward events at home. Industrial peace and reduced taxation which is the offspring of peace, can do more...
...general consensus of opinion indicates that the recent expansion in production and distribution has reached its peak. Nevertheless, previous fears that this expansion would broaden into a reckless and unsound speculative movement are less keenly felt. The principal markets seem to have attained an equilibrium, and the question now is, whether present industrial and mercantile activity can be maintained throughout the year...