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...activities of the Canning Industry Board of California, an association of about two-thirds of all canneries in the State, which has blocked the issuance of the marketing order proposed by the State Department of Agriculture. . . . The result has been that, notwithstanding this year's crop is the smallest in three years, the price offered growers is the lowest in 20 years. The price paid last year by canners was $44 per ton. Price offered this year so far is $5 a ton. . . . Cost of production is $23 a ton. The result will ruin the majority of growers...
...Predicted the smallest cotton acreage for harvest since 1900-26,339,000 acres. Prices at once jumped from 9.04? to 9.17? a lb. for spot cotton...
...clothing was last week ushered out by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in the role of beneficent shepherd. He was able to say that the Treasury's deficit for the year of 1,459 millions was: 1) only 371 millions larger than predicted; 2) the smallest deficit of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. He was able to show that the National Debt had risen only 740 millions* the smallest rise since 1931. He could say these things because of: 1) some real reductions in Government over-head at the start of the year; 2) the greatest Treasury...
...figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week since 1921, and Wall Street was as gloomy as only that particularly volatile spot can be. Then one morning as customers' men straggled long-faced to their desks, telephones began to ring...
...last week total bond trading on the New York Stock Exchange was a pee-wee $3,270,000. smallest five-hour day in 20 years. The same day, trading in bonds on the over-the-counter market, which has been grabbing more & more of the bond business, was estimated at $18,000,000. Over-the-counter bond trading amounts to wholesaling such as that of banks and insurance companies buying and selling huge blocks at a time ($5,000,000 in one deal is not unusual). Deals this big are virtually impossible on the Exchange because the attendant publicity would...