Profit-and-Dividend Status of 348 Corporations in the United States for the Period from 1929 to 1935.

Here again is a group of 100% bar charts.

Note that the two types of crosshatchtngs below the zero line are in the classification "unprofitable" while the two above the zero line are in the classification "profitable." The zero line might well be heavier to emphasize this division.

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2. Carving sets: ^7.bO each. Right Price was ^6.00

Churchill EnKinrrrinK Corporation. N. Y. C.

B. The Distortion in Prevailing Prices of Sixty-Six Itenns of Cutlery Manufactured by One Company as Determined by the Churchill Engineering Corporation.

E.R.P. in this chart means "Economic Right Prices." Fifty of sixty-six items analyzed, according to this corporation, were below E.R.P., while sixteen were above.

GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

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INVESTMeNTS

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LOANS INVESTMENTS

National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., N. Y. C, February 7, 1936.

SCALE .7

Loans and Investments of the Member Banks of the Federal Reserve System from 1929 to 1935.