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 & Telegraph,
 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 Prohibition
 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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