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...were charts of the depressions of 1873 and 1893. These the onetime Vice President of the U. S. used to illustrate his contention that a pent-up demand for the products of heavy industry had in both cases burst forth precisely five years and six months after the first stockmarket crash. Barked the good General: "The demand for durable goods . . . in a Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that not later than June or July of next year should be the beginning of the great sustained demand for durable goods due to the accumulation...
Both sides hailed this Grubb opinion as a victory. Lowly utility shares rallied briskly on the stockmarket. Director Lilienlhal rejoiced: "It is upon this very basis that the Authority has been administering the law as it pertains to power." Donald Richbcrg jeered: "The opinion of Judge Grubb must be a sad blow to the highly-paid lawyers recently employed by the Edison Electric Institute to demonstrate that the entire grant of power to the TVA was unconstitutional...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
...inflation talk jiggled the stockmarket into the first million-share day in weeks. Prices rounded out a month-long rise from the year's low in September, and Wall Street approached cheerfulness. Steel was a few steps out of the bog. Electric power production topped the 1933 line for the first time in six weeks. Loans to businessmen swelled another $34,000,000. bringing the total expansion since the middle of August...
...Stockmarket loss...