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Business Superstitions
September 26, 1928 issue

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A U.S. business man will tell you that he is individualistic, hard-headed, unemotional and a worshiper of facts and figures. There are certain signs, however, in Presidential years that show that he may be highly sensitive, not to say superstitious. In each of the twelve election years since 1880, for example, the curve of general business activity has dipped sharply during the spring and summer months. This occurred regardless of the prevailing business conditions in those years. And since the dip was more pronounced than the normal slackening up of business in the summers of other years, it reveals a hesitant and apprehensive attitude on the part of industrial leaders during campaign years.

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BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; BUSINESSPEOPLE -- United States; BUSINESS conditions; ECONOMIC history; ELECTIONS -- United States; UNITED States
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