Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since has the annual yield topped a billion bushels. Last week's estimates, however, placed the 1938 yield between 1,020,623,000 and 1,045,623,000 bu., on top of a 200,000,000-bu. carryover. Annual U. S. consumption is about half this stupendous total. With light crops in England, Italy and North Africa, there is a slim chance the U. S. may export a sizable share of its surplus. Hope on this score plus rumors of black rust last week jumped prices on the Chicago wheat exchange 4½? a bu. day after the report...
Corn. After last year's huge corn harvest (2,644,995,000 bu.), mid-western farmers were asked to plant 18% fewer acres. Many ignored the request. It is estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...
Bank Debits (withdrawals from individual checking accounts in 274 cities). With the advent of Depression II, bank debits slumped at once as people tightened their purse strings. The total touched bottom in February. Subsequent figures, charted with seasonal allowances, show that since early March public buying has held at a fairly even pace. Last week's bank debits were $6,850,000, 18% under a year ago but the same as the previous week. Significance: though production of goods is still dropping, buying has apparently steadied-an optimistic sign...
...movement has passed. That it has worked for High Priest Rhea, Certified Public Accountant O. M. Williams certifies as follows: "I have audited the accounts of Robert Rhea and those of a corporation and two trusts operated by him and for his benefit. . . . My findings were that on total transactions [over nearly a ten-year period] involving 601,612 shares, a gain of $436.19 was realized for each $100.00 of loss." Aside from trading, his 5,565 clients at a yearly fee of $40 a head provide a neat income...
...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...