Summary: | This is the volume I, issue 11, October 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 outlook, Business activity index), Alabama economic conditions (Agriculture, The feed outlook, The livestock situation, Hogs, Beef cattle, Sheep, Butter, Poultry and eggs, Business summary); Finance: Bank debits, Bank deposits, Bank failures, Capital flotations; Building and construction: Building permits, Construction contracts; Industrial production: Steel, Pig iron, Electric power, Lumber, Cotton consumption, Cotton spinning, Cloth production and sales; Merchandising: Advertising, Car loadings, Automobile sales, Life insurance sales, Foreign trade, Cotton production consumption and export, Commercial failures, Profits in 1931; Prices: Prices for August, Annalist weekly price index, Farm prices in the United States, Alabama farm prices; Alabama population: Color race and sex, Urban-rural population, Age
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