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...growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb of speculation...
...Stetson's book does not take account of the recent stockmarket and business slump. He pointed out last week, however, that sunspots diminished after Aug. 1 (two weeks before the market break) and did not resume their upclimb until last fortnight. He expects the current sunspot increase to continue for another year...
...market-Carrier common stock may earn substantially more than the $1.43 per share earned for the first three quarters this year. Currently Carrier stock is selling at $29 a share, down from the year's high of $67.50. But Willis Carrier had more immediate things than the stockmarket to think of. First thing he did in his new quarters last week was to set about installing an air-conditioning system...
...with his two chief Wall Street policemen- Chairman William 0. Douglas of the Securities & Exchange Commission and one-time Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy. Though no connection was admitted by those involved, within two days the New Deal took a step for which brokers and bankers had clamored since the stockmarket smash began over ten weeks ago. Without offering explanation, the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements for stock purchases from...
Prime evidence of current business recession are steel operations, last week off 41 points from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity. To this statistic U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest industrial organization, bellwether of steel production and of New York stockmarket prices, last week gave the retort direct, by declaring its first dividend on common stock in five years. It announced net income for the first nine months of 1937 as $90,852,853 (after deduction of $4,500,000 for undistributed profits taxation) which amounts, after preferred stock dividends, to $8.26 for each...