280 
Calling of loans, 45 
Call-money rate, 4 
Canadian National Railways, 
163 
Capital gains, Federal tax on, 
37-41, 248 
Capper-Volstead Act, 112 
Car loadings decline, 59 
Causes of the panic, various 
theories of, 31ff. 
“Caution factor” in buying, 205-7 
Cement merger, 108 
Chance, element of, in buying 
stocks and bonds, zo4-7 
Chase National Bank, New York 
City, 6 
Check-up on status of stock-issu- 
ing companies, as safety prin- 
ciple, 207-8 
Chicago & Northwestern, 163 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 
164 
Cities Service Co., 209 
City Bank Farmers Trust Co, 
New York City, 36 
Clark, Wallace, 142, 144, 145 
Clay, Paul, xv 
Clayton Act, 106, 111 
Collateral loan policy proposed 
to avert panic, 247-8 
Commercial and Financial 
Chronicle, The, 5, 17, 43-4 
Committee, joint, proposed for 
passing on new issues, 249- 
50 
Common Stocks as Long Term 
Investments (Smith), 67, 200 
Comparison of rates of increase 
in stock prices over earnings, 
and vice versa. See Stock 
Prices 
Conferences: Oct. 2, 6-7; at 
White House, Nov. 13, 13, 17, 
18. See National Business 
Advisory Council 
Index 
Construction and maintenance 
work expanded for stabiliza- 
tion, 22-3, 28 
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn, 142 
Coolidge, Calvin, xi 
“Coolidge boom” as cause, 52-3 
Corn Exchange Bank, 13 
Corporate incomes: net, 77-3; 
profits absorbed, reserved, or 
plowed back, 78-9; under- 
stated, 82; gains in, 1929, 
74-5 
Corporations: showing “no net 
income,” 75-7; publicity desir- 
able for financial operations 
of, 114-8 
Cosmetic and perfume merger, 
108 
Credits: growth of, 1928, xiv, 
xv; available after panic, 29; 
increased volume of, allowed 
by bankers, 41-2; overexten- 
sion of, 98, 223 
Crises Commerciales, Des (Jug- 
lar), 258 
Currency, unstable purchasing 
power of, 182-97 
Dairy merger, 108 
Day, E. E,, 161 
Deflation of currency, 187-8, 194 
Dennison, Henry 8. 142, 143, 
172 
Diversification in buying securi- 
ties, 203-7 
Dollar, fluctuating value of, 
182ff, 
Doran, J. M,, 177 
Dow-Jones barometer, xv 
Du Pont-U. S. Rubber combina- 
tion, 108 
Earnings, 1929, 9x 
Economic Effects of Prohibition 
(Feldman), 173