Word: duns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...
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These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities...
...were spent crossing the northern part of 1934's Great Drought. Those days were memorable. His progress was like a triumphal procession. Uninvited thousands drove miles across the blistered plains to hear him speak. And, like a miracle, within a few hours of his passing through those dull, dun, desiccated lands, showers followed, then drenching rains (TIME...
Oldest U. S. broadcasting station was off the air for an hour when failure of power silenced Pittsburgh's KDKA. Other broadcasters took what the flood brought them with varying degrees of enterprise. National Broadcasting Company sent out engineers and announcers to look at acres of dun-colored water, broadcast what they saw. Columbia Broadcasting System relayed the flood descriptions of local stations...