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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