Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...index of industrial activity is better than steel production. Last week the following facts showed how stalled is U. S. steel, how inactive is U. S. industry: C. Steel scrap sold at $12.83 a ton on The Iron Age composite scale-lowest in two years. Price year ago: $21.92. Since new steel is nearly 50% melted scrap, any rise in steel production is usually presaged by a rise in scrap prices...
...educators are much concerned with recreation, because what a nation does with its leisure is an index of its character and culture. Five years ago Northwestern University and the Chicago Recreation Commission began a monumental study, costing $250,000 (most of it supplied by WPA), of public and private recreation in Chicago...
Last week power output was off 8%, automobile production dropped to 56,000 units against 101,000 year ago, steel production was at 33% of capacity, Manhattan department store sales were down 16%. car-loadings were a horrifying 75% of normal and the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production fell to 79 against 117 last August. The South, with 8¾? cotton (in 1931 it went to 6?, was not as badly off as Mr. Roosevelt told his Georgia audience it was. In the Far West business was far better than in the industrial East, but business...
...must obviously be further raised- members of the Chamber took time out recently to raise their own pay-and the new charter adopts a variant of the system existing in Belgium, where most labor contracts provide for automatic revision of wages up or down in step with the price index...
...Duchesse of Gallese. Up the tortuous, winding road to Gardone di Sopra wound the procession, through lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest imparted conditional absolution, although virtually all the poet's 80 volumes are on the Catholic Index as "obscene and blasphemous." All day the body lay on the prow of the battle cruiser Pulgia, which D'Annunzio had dismantled, then reconstructed in a cement bed on the villa lawn, while thousands of visitors trooped silently past...