CHARTS 
CHART 
1. Growth of Manufactures, 1919-1926, 
Preceding Two Decades 
Compared with 
Frontispiece 
2. Stock Prices, Last Half of 1929 . . . 
3. Booms, Recoveries and Panics, 1914-1929 
4. Stock Price Index Numbers, 1870-1929 
s. Stock Price Indexes: London, New York, Paris and 
Berlin, 1927-1929 . . . . . 
6. Net Profits and Stock Prices, Railroads . . . . 
7. Net Profits and Stock Prices, All Industries . . . 
8. Net Profits and Stock Prices, Public Utilities 
9. Cash Dividends and Total Earnings As Per Cents of 
Market Prices . . . . . + . «= 
10. Price Earnings Ratios, All Industries, Variable 
Group, 1928-1929 . . . . . . Lo 
11. Price Earnings Ratios, 45 Industrials, Fixed Group . 
12. Price Earnings Ratios, 25 Rails, Fixed Group . . 
13. Mergers Recorded, 1919-1928 . . 4 x 3 
14. Prime Cost, Physical Volume of Production and Unit 
Prime Cost . . . . . . 
15. Electricity Displaces Other Power 
16. Managerial Control . . 
17. Weekly Wage Rate, Hours Worked and Unit Prime 
Cost oo... 159 
18. Industrial Disputes and Workers Involved, 1916-1928 167 
19. Wholesale Commodity Prices, 1923-1929 . 186 
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