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19M 32 -35 -36

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CHCMICAL & ORUC

FOOD k FOOD PRODUCTS

STORES

TOBACCO

INDUSTRIALS

UTILITIES EXCEPT TEL COS.

Federal Rcstrve ARrnt at New York, "Monthly Review." April 1, 1Q37.

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Annual Net Profits or Deficits of 727 United States Industrial and Mercantile Concerns, Class I Railroads, and 62 Public Utility Companies Other Than Telephone Connpanies, During 1929, 1932, 1935. and 1936. 1929 Equals 100%.

1. In a bilateral bar chart, the zero line while still a base line is not the bottom line.

2. In this chart the bars below the zero line are a minus quantity and those above are a

plus quantity.

3. It should be noted that in each group of bars, the 100% bar is always the same height.

4. It might have been better not to have the numbers at the end of each bar, since the

bar is lengthened and the visual differences are decreased. PMr«t« i >ll«r»«t.

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Dun's Rrvicw, April 1Q38.

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Hypothetical Use of the Regional Trade Barometer of Dun's Review in a Comparison of Increases or Decreases of a Company's Sales from Month to Month in Each Sales District.

Trade Barometers for 29 Regions in the United States in Which the Indexes of November 1938 Are Compared With the Indexes of November 1937 in Percentage Reductions or Increases.

21 SAN FtANCISCO 29 LOS ANCCLtS

Dun's Review. February 1939.

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GRAPHIC PRESENTATION