284
Preventives of future panics,
238-56
Price agreements, legalizing of,
1x2-3
Prices of commodities, 25-6; sta-
bility in, 182; fall of, 58, 187;
Federal Reserve control of,
188
Prices of stock. See Stock
Prices
Productivity, increased by sci-
entific management, 142-56;
its relation to labor, 161
Profits, corporate, absorbed as
salaries, 76-7
Prohibition, its economic effects,
175-81
Prohibition Still at Its Worst
(Fisher), 173
Psychological effect of the panic,
56, 60, 63-4
Public =~ Service Commission
(Mass.) decision in Edison
Co. stock split, 37
Publicity, advantages of, in re-
lations between business and
consumer, 117
Quinby, Dr., of Hood Rubber
Co., 170
Railroad mergers, 108 ; stocks, 2,
3, 7; publicity given to earn-
ings of, 114
Raskob, John J. xi, 259
“Rate of yield” defined, 201
Ratio of stock earnings to
prices. See Stock Prices
Rayon merger, ros
R. C. A—Victor merger, 108
“Real” vs. “nominal” yield on
investments, 201-2
Real estate values, effect of Pro-
hibition on, 177
Recent Economic Changes re-
Index
port, 67, 75, 90, 130, 143, 162,
164, 166, 195-6, 260; Commit-
tee, 100, 102, 104, 120
Recovery from panic, 16, 21ff,,
59
Rediscount rates, Bank of Eng-
land, 4; on brokers’ loans,
250-1, 264-5. See Federal Re-
serve
Revenues “lost” through Prohi-
bition, 178-80
Ripley, William Z., 113, 115
Roberts, George E., 49-50, 226
Robertson, Thomas E., 127
Robinson, Leland Rex, 214
Robinson, Senator J. T. (Ark.),
xi, 52
Robinson, Senator A. R. (Ind.),
xi
Rockefeller, John D., and John
D., Jr, 12, 16
Roman, Frederick W., 183-4
Rorty, Malcolm C., xv
Ryan, A. H., 169
Safety fund proposed for emer-
gencies, 247
Safety standards proposed for
averting panics, 242
Scientific inventions in relation
to industry, 119-41
Scientific management, 142-56
Selective character of 1929 mar-
ket, 93-4
Selling-out forced by brokers?
43-4
Shareholders, numbers of, in.
creased since panic, 209-10
Sherman Act, 106
Shipping Board Act, 111
Simmons, E. H. H., 93, 221
Sinclair, John 8. 3x
Sloan, Laurence H., 83
Smith, Edgar Lawrence, 67, 99,
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