Word: charts
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...highs, the index of all shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen 42%, the index of all issues on the American Stock Exchange has plunged 46%, and a popular average of over-the-counter stocks (those not listed on an exchange) has plummeted 54% (see chart). And this has occurred at a time when all other prices have been rising. Market Analyst Raymond F. DeVoe of Spencer Trask & Co. figures that share prices, adjusted for changes in the dollar's purchasing power, dropped 86% during the 1929-32 collapse (consumer prices were falling then, along with...
...figures that the U.S., and the vast world market that its farmers help feed, will have to make do with an American corn crop of only 4.96 billion bu.-12% less than last year's harvest and a startling 26% below the record production predicted earlier (see chart). The soybean crop will be down even lower: it is now projected to be 16% below last year's record output of 1.6 billion bu. and 15% under earlier estimates. The wheat harvest, estimated at 1.84 billion bu., will still top last year's, but by only 8% rather...
...dollars, pounds, marks and other currencies that has been deposited in banks outside the country of issuance. Companies and even governments have been able to tap the market freely for loans that played a major role in financing trade. The currency pool is continuing to grow in size (see chart following page) but nervous investors these days are making only short-term deposits; the banks are reluctant to make any long-term Eurocurrency loans. Thus a major source of European financing is drying...
Share Dips. As a result, the spread between what housewives pay for food and what farmers get for the same goods has widened markedly (see chart). Last August farmers were getting an unusually high 52? of every dollar that the housewife spent for food; in May their share was down to 40?. The remaining 60? went to the middlemen...
...play's reputation I have to admit that I can't share the general enthusiasm for it as a stage vehicle. Shakespeare was still an immature playwright when he wrote it, and the quality of the result soars and plunges like a fever chart. Much of the work is too artificial, much of the punning too protracted, much of the diction rhetorically overwrought...