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...June the cost-of-living index rose a point and a half. In the last four months it had gone up nearly five points, stood at 125.1 (it was 100.8 in August...
Fathers & Sons. A much more reliable index of Negro passing than Hart's, Burma thinks, is a study of 346 mulatto families made by Sociologist Caroline Day. She found that 10% of these families had members who had passed. Estimating that 40% of the 2,750,000 U.S. Negro families are comparable to Dr. Day's group (in their proportion of white blood), Burma figured that there are some 110,000 passers all told. His estimate of the number passing each year...
...together for the National Gallery as an enormous Index of American Design, which artists and manufacturers can study in one place instead of seeking out the scattered originals, it makes a file of about 22,000 pencil and watercolor copies of 17th, 18th and 19th Century homemade art. Some of the collection has been seen before (notably at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum); other parts will eventually be reproduced in a companion volume to the National Gallery's Masterpieces...
...Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index for July was estimated at 172 or 173, two or three points above June's postwar peak...
...Bradstreet's daily wholesale price index of basic commodities, which had jack-rabbited up for three weeks, finally leveled off at 229.67, then dropped a few points. One of the reasons was the price drop in meat...