INDEX 
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 114 
Agassiz, Louis, 120 
Agricultural revolution due to 
scientific invention, 136-7 
Amalgamated Association of 
Street and Railway Employees, 
164 
Amalgamations. See Mergers 
American Acceptance Council, 
46, 222 
American Bankers’ Association, 
42-3, 255 
American Federation of Labor, 
157, 160, 195 
American Telephone & Tele- 
graph, wire and wireless 
mergers, 108 
America’s New Frontier, 132 
Anderson, Benjamin M., 235 
Ad nnalist, The, xv 
Artificial “floor” proposed for 
New York Stock Exchange, 
243-7 
Association Against the Prohibi- 
tion Amendment, 178-9 
“Atlantic and Pacific” stores, 
107 
Automobiles: overproduction, 
37; sales, 59; effect of their 
increase on American life, 
134-5 
Axe, Emerson Wirt, xv 
Avres, Leonard, go 
Bank: mergers, 108; pool, 54; 
stocks, 8, 9 (for list, see 
Stocks) 
Bankers’ acceptances, 4, 44 
Bankers’ conferences, 6-7, 18 
Bankers’ Trust Co., 6, 15° 
Bank of England rediscount 
rate, 4, 229 
Baring panic, 1900, 31 
Barnes, Julius H,, 27 
Barron's Weekly, 31 
Bear tactics, 43, 53-4, 240 
Beckhart, Benjamin H., 235 
Beer, Henry Ward, 107 
Berlin Stock Exchange, 32, 230 
Bethlehem Steel Company, 172-3, 
211 
Beyer, Otto S., Jr., 163, 164 
Blumenthal, Daniel W., xi 
Sonds: safety of, vs. stocks, 198; 
their speculative character, 
202 
“Boom” enthusiasm as cause of 
panic, 52-3 
Boston Five-Cent Savings Bank, 
213 
Boston News Bureau, 95, 96 
Bradford, Lindsay, 36 
Brass merger, 103 
Brokers’ loans, xv, xxi, 16, 42-3, 
221, 250-2 
Building decline, 1929, 42, 57, 59 
Burton, Theodore E., 259 
Business recession, 1929, 36 
Babson, Roger W., xii, xv, 4 
‘Baltimore & Ohio plan,” 162-5 Cahill, M. H., 50, 247 
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