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...Each year along toward the end of November the senior editor, writers and researchers of TIME'S Business & Finance department begin worrying. The time for their year-end review, which goes to press the first week in January, is at hand, and they are faced with the difficult task of putting the year's events in the world of business in their proper perspective. It is a long, exacting, formidable...
...This year's review of Business in 1947 (TIME, Jan. 12) was the most extensive TIME has ever run. A.D. 1947 was a critical, confused, difficult year, and the editors' attempt to evaluate it had to begin, of course, with the facts. Because many final figures are not released until after the year's end, the editors had to go directly to the sources for some statistics that were vital to the story. Many of them were to be had only in Washington, and some weeks before the story went to press Washington Bureau Reporter Marshall Berger...
...term Government bonds. Last week's drop, over two points in some issues, was the biggest in more than a decade, and it touched off a wave of selling which quickly spread to corporate and municipal bonds. The New York stockmarket, which had been showing signs of a year-end rally, was stopped in its tracks. Cause of all this: a surprise move by the Federal Reserve System which curbed credit...
Minister of Education Manuel Gual Vidal had some cheering year-end news: in the three years of Mexico's "each one teach one" campaign (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946), almost 1,100,000 illiterates had been taught to read & write...
...black for the first nine months of this year (TIME, Oct. 13). K-F joyfully informed stockholders that the company had made a profit of $8.3 million in the third quarter, after a loss of $2.2 million in the first six months. The overall profit of $6.1 million, said K-F, was tax free under the carry-forward tax provision. (K-F's $19.3 million loss in 1946 makes profits up to that amount tax free.) The report, said K-F, was unaudited and "subject to change with year-end adjustments...