| Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 9, August 1, 1931 issue of The Alabama Economic Review, a newsletter published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Research and the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). The newsletter includes articles of interest related to economics in Alabama. Topics include construction, retail sales, and farm income and credit. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.Articles: Summary: National economic conditions (Agriculture, Business outloook, Business activity index), Alabama economic conditions (Agriculture, Business summary); Finance: Bank debits, Bank deposits, Bank failures; Building and construction: Building permits, Construction contracts; Industrial production: Steel, Pig iron, Cast iron pipe, Coal, Coke, Cement, Electric power, Lumber, Cotton spinning, Cotton consumption, Cloth production and sales, Cottonseed crushed; Merchandising: Advertising, Freight car loadings, Automobile sales, Life insurance sales, Wholesale business 1929, Hotels in 1929, Foreign trade, Commercial failures; Prices and taxation: Prices, Annalist price index, Farm prices in United States, Alabama farm prices, Price situation and outlook quotations (Cotton, Corn, Hogs, Cattle, Butter, Poultry and eggs, Peaches, Sweet potatoes), Alabama farm wages and labor supply, Margin between farm and retail prices in Alabama, Federal taxes, Expenditure and income of Alabama, Sources of state revenues, Tonnage tax
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