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...that Nazi deviltry was not wholly responsible for last week's bearish market. Stocks rarely go up when falling commodity prices reflect business unwillingness to bid for materials for future use. This unwillingness was already apparent by July 22 when the Department of Labor's wholesale price index fell sharply on its way to a new post-Depression low (74.8% of 1926), again in early August when both the Dow-Jones Index of future commodity prices and Moody's index of spot commodity prices slumped sharply...
...because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran true to form last week; most commodities rose because of speculative war stocking (including heavy copper and rubber buying by Germany). Instead of following the pattern, U. S. commodity prices marched downhill like stocks (the Bureau of Labor Index remained at its low; Dow-Jones and Moody commodity indices each fell over a point). Something besides war fear was obviously at work...
Believing that Government spending (for new public works, railroad equipment and housing, etc.) is necessary to tide over steel and other durable goods industries the summer and autumn of 1940, New Dealers now count on sagging indices. They asked whether Congress could revive (noted Barren's Index on building stocks was down 7.66% from July 28) July's stockmarket boom...
Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor's wholesale price index hit a new 1939 low-75.2, its bottom since...