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...millions of dollars have to be paid out by New York banks in cashing bond coupons due on that date, and also dividend checks issued on stocks. Very often this sudden though temporary demand for funds by New York banks, coupled with the need of sending funds west to move the crops, creates a temporary money shortage on and just before Oct. 1. So it turned out this year, and call money on the Stock Exchange-;-the most sensitive part of the American money market-rose to 6% quite suddenly...
...Francisco, and called attention to the fact that every member of the Interstate Commerce Commission hails from north of that line. "The South and West must be represented," opined Senator Underwood, in advocating that the weaker railroads of the country be amalgamated with the stronger. Such a move, he declared, would make for a stable and prosperous condition among the railways, on the basis of which rates could be determined with fairness to both shipper and carrier...
...This move, according to Signor Mussolini's cabinet, will end the incompetence which is corollary to petty political warfare, and substitute "an organ of government above parties." The Fascisti are apparently resolved to introduce more competence and more of themselves into Italian politics, for, as Signor Mussolin frankly admits, "You cannot govern with words...
During the past fortnight, Juan Bautista Saavedra, Tyrant of Bolivia, was forced to move faster than he chose. Things were slipping...
...whole motor industry is now operating on Henry Ford's classic idea-that many small profits amount to more than a few large profits. Practically all motor companies have slashed their prices sharply. Never before did a dollar buy so much in automobiles as today. This universal move has been greeted by the public with a purchasing of motors which even the most optimistic scarcely thought possible one year ago. In the beginning (TIME, Jan. 12) the price slashing between motor companies seemed to point inevitably to elimination of the weaker companies, which is already not unknown in this...