Word: bradstreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley Bradstreet Williams Brown '32 of New York City has been elected Freshman soccer manager it was announced last night. Brown prepared at Hotchkiss...
...favorite indications as to the condition of business is the record of business failures compiled by Bradstreet. For October October total since the boom days of 1920. Liabilities of last month's failures were only $36,195,273, likewise the lowest October figures since...
Perhaps never before in our history have business men given such close attention to the price indices for commodities. For this situation the fear of-or sometimes the hope of- "gold inflation" is responsible. The Bradstreet indices for July 1 showed a smart upward trend, which the weekly index numbers of Prof. Irving Fisher (Yale economist) have corroborated. The publication of the wholesale price indices for commodities by the U.S. Department of Labor-considered by many the most scientific price index available-now reaffirms the upward price tendency...
Ever since Dec. 1, 1923, according to Bradstreet's index, prices for commodities have been falling. Starting with 146.0 on that date, the index fell to 143.8 on Jan. 1, 1924; to 143.3 on Feb. 1; and to 139.9 on March 1. The figure of 137.1 for April 1 shows that the downward movement has continued...
...Bradstreet indexes are computed by taking 1913 average prices as 100. The existing degree of inflation or deflation compared in the pre-War prices is thus readily shown. On April 1, only hides and leather were cheaper than in the year before...