Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second conclusion is that there is a need today for highly trained men at a time when business in general is dull. Present conditions of course influence the number of employment opportunities; and yet the general trend toward specialized business training is of longer standing than the present slump...
...sale of a long stock is far more depressing than a short sale, pointed out that the Administration's reconstruction measures have given investors an opportunity to get out of the market. Small investors have increased during Depression, he said. Asked to what cause he attributed the slump in prices, he replied...
...Forum occurred near its 40th birthday. The magazine was founded in 1892 as The Brickbuilder by the firm of Rogers & Manson which currently publishes it. It became Architectural Forum in 1916. In 1928 it was bought by National Trade Journals, Inc. reputedly for $1,000,000. The current building slump cost the magazine heavily in advertising. Year ago it was retrieved at receiver's sale by Rogers & Manson, headed by President Howard Myers. Editorially it lost nothing in the process...
...They have been a major influence in making the world vulnerable to depression and in intensifying the slump when it came. Prosperity, it is safe to say, will not be established on a reasonably solid foundation until there have been substantial reductions in many tariffs...
...profitable price does not equal the productive capacity already in existence, but located in other countries. Maladjustments thus aggravated by tariffs, did not directly precipitate the collapse of prosperity but they did weaken the economic position of many countries and reduce their ability to resist depression. Moreover, when the slump came, the prices of the over-produced commodities fell more precipitously than most prices, diminishing the purchasing power of many countries and causing the depression to go from bad to worse...