Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant's speech before the Harvard Club of New York is the first significant index to the development which the University may be expected to fellow during his regime. Although the substance of Mr. Conant's remarks was necessarily broad and incomplete, it is fair to assume that they embody an educational philosophy which his first annual report on Monday will serve merely to expand...
Sixth, a recommendation that if any price index is used to help measure the fluctuations of purchasing power it should be a wholesale price number consisting largely of commodities entering into international trade...
...conservatives, so to speak. There were men, for instance, who held views very much like those of Professor Warren of Cornell, who has been the President's principal adviser on monetary questions. In the minority report of the gold delegation, the emphasis on the importance of a commodity index is almost as strong as that which Mr. Warren has given to the doctrine...
...delegation. "that monetary policy, designed to avoid violent fluctuations of purchasing power, should be based upon a variety of considerations interpreted by the judgment of central banks and expressed in national policies arrived at after due consideration and cooperative consultation concerning their international repercussions. Movements of the index numbers of wholesale prices should be used, not as a single determinant of immediate policy, but as one among many factors to be taken into consideration...
...President estimated U. S. revenues, including processing taxes, at $3,260,000,000 for fiscal 1934 and $3,975,000,000 for fiscal 1935. To estimate these revenues it was necessary to guess at the state of business. His guesses (technically based on the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production) : business in fiscal 1934 to average approximately the same as business in 1931, business in fiscal 1935 to average just a shade better than business in 1930. His estimates of revenue did not include about $50,000,000 which may be added if the Federal liquor...