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...Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...
...statements, increasing carloadings, bloated surplus bank reserves and low money rates point to rising prices on the stock market, brokers, politicians and business men face one vital issue. Can the federal government stop a runaway bull market? Optimists point hopefully at the recent regulations on short sales, the flexible margin requirements, and wide discretionary authority vested in the SEC and the Federal Reserve Board. But as Mr. LeFevre points out in the current Saturday Evening Post, all of these panaceas may prove futile unless the unscientific income tax imposed on capital gains is repealed...
This danger is peculiarly significant in the current market. For over thirteen months the stock market has been steadily increasing. Yet almost all of the purchases have been made on a cash rather than a margin basis. Manipulation of margin requirements, technical recessions will not affect these holders of securities. And, since the sale of their stocks is made prohibitively expensive by the capital gains surtax, this group will remain on the long side of the market until there is a wholesale loss of confidence with resulting collapse of values. The absence of profit taking on the way up, inevitably...
Batting averages of the players who were in most of the games shows where the strength of the team lay. Slugging Lupe Lupien who knocked out eight home runs during the season, led all others by a wide margin, gaining a 494 average...
...Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) had their slice of the market pared slightly, independents gaining more than the general average. Furthermore, Ford safes fell off 24% from the same period last year. Ford's slump nearly cost the Man of Dearborn second place in the industry, reducing his margin over Chrysler to a bare 6,400 units for the first three months...