Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know. I once asked Mr. Roosevelt himself. He just turned and looked out the window as if he hadn't seen...
Behind France's action last week lay persistent rumors buzzing in the Far East for the past month that Japan had eyes on the islands, planned to establish there a seaplane base to be used in a campaign against South China. So far no Japanese warships have been seen in the vicinity, but Japanese fishermen and workers have been shipped to the reefs in increasing numbers...
Ahead the Treasury did not look just yet. The net effect of the 75th Congress' whopping appropriations and authorizations will not be known until it is seen: 1) how much more money will have to be voted for Relief after next March; 2) how far Government revenues fall in fiscal 1939 due to Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit...
...business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded the August market break by only a few weeks. Thus Depression II may be linked to the current sunspot downgrade. But no temporary outburst of sunspots was reported to accompany last week's ebullient stockmarket...
...enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen in the averages for more than two years." But Robert Rhea warned that though this meant that the secondary trend (wave) had changed from bear to bull, there was still no proof that the primary trend (tide) had done the same...