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 27Q