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...various available ways to the accomplishing of the new thing. And in Dr. Eliot's hands mere facts, mere statistics, the vast fruits of his own and others' research, do not remain sheer knowledge, but are utilized as soon as practicable, being converted by him from dead data into raw material for the manufacture of new and living experiments. And such has been the power of this remarkable gift, that without apparent effort, without even the burning enthusiasm which marks reformers, but with the steady, serene pressure only of a self-confidence founded on supreme conviction. Dr. Eliot...
...trade boom, one of the favorite sports of business men was organizing foreign banks. The country then enjoyed a tremendous export trade, and the thought was that an extension of American banking facilities abroad would serve to hold open the channels of this foreign buying of our goods and raw materials. The near-panic of 1920 perceptibly cooled the enthusiasm for foreign banks, and subsequent years have seen their gradual disappearance. The recent retirement of the Asia Banking Corporation, whose business has been taken over by the International Banking Corporation, leaves the latter institution as the lone survivor in this...
During the War the Reich had concentrated its industry upon one thing- the making of munitions. At the end of the War, German factories were so converted that they could make little else but munitions. Germany was, however, otherwise ruined; she had no raw materials, no food; her railways were crippled, her population restive...
...regularities both in astronomy and economics. We are familiar with the course of the "Business Cycle," as described by Prof. Wesley Clair Mitchell and others, through inflation, crisis, depression, recovery. Its major catastrophes show a somewhat irregular recurrence, but if we analyze wholesale prices, both of manufactured goods and raw materials, we find a fairly regular cycle of about eight years between peaks. It is all argued with incomparable logic in Generating Economic Cycles-by Dr. Henry Ludwell Moors, Research Professor of Political Economy at Columbia, one of the foremost higher statisticians of the world...
...Generating cycles" are cycles which originate in non-economic causes, such as weather. "Derived cycles" are the fluctuations in prices and prosperity which follow them. The farms supply 81.2% of all raw materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed...