Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far this year Dictator Mussolini's moves have produced an Italian boomlet with the index of general production at 106.8% of the country's prosperous year 1928. Not wholly confined to war industries, since II Duce presses on relentlessly with his Fascist public works, the index has risen also in peaceful trades, soaring to 184% of 1928 activity in the building sector. Unemployment, which stood at 1,160,000 in January 1934, was down to 750,000 last week, due partly to army recruiting, partly to the boomlet's creation of more work and partly...
...steel industry stepped up operations from a year's low of 32% of capacity to nearly 40%. Machine tool buying for June was the best in five years, better than the 15 year average, and increasing contra-seasonally. The index of power production was abreast of October 1929. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales advanced from 76 in May to 80 in June, and last week's retailing reports revealed a rising clamor for goods. F. W. Dodge reported home construction, key to the building industry, amounting to $49,000,000 in June...
...Chancellor said that he has given not "risky relief" but "stimulating relief" to Britain. "Railway traffic, bank clearings and retail trade all show a steady rise," continued Mr. Chamberlain. "The index of production in the building industry?a good barometer?has risen to the record figure of 181, taking 1930 as 100. Imports of raw materials have increased. These are all hopeful pointers." By implication Chancellor Chamberlain attributed them to his Treasury policies which he aptly summed up as "always keeping in the forefront the necessity of maintaining confidence...
...Minneapolis venture, they would doubtless retire to their Iowa pasture for a long time. If they succeed, it is a practical certainty that the next year or so will see them buying into another city. They have long been surveying the field, have in their files a complete detailed index about almost every newspaper in the U. S. that might be for sale. With 30 years of active publishing ahead of them, with William Randolph Hearst settling into old age, with Scripps & Howard in their prime, the youthful Brothers Cowles of Iowa may yet step...
...turned over to Translator Livingston, and five years later a faithful translation of the text, of the footnotes that made up a third of the entire work of 2,033 pages, was completed. More than a year was required for reading proof, checking references, making the 100-page index...