Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compensated dollar' is a proposal to establish by law a currency redeemable in gold but the weight of gold for which the dollar would exchange would vary with the index number of wholesale prices of all commodities. If prices rose 1%, the weight of gold for which the dollar would exchange would be raised 1%. If prices fell 1% the dollar would exchange for 1% less. This would keep the dollar stable in buying power for the average of all commodities. The dollar has to be rubber as to weight or as to value. It cannot have a fixed...
...From the 11th to the 15th century the index remains at 1 without any definite increase whatever. Since the 15th century, the trend of indices jumps definitely upward. By the opening of the 17th century, the war activity index is at 10, and at the opening of the 19th century, the number has risen gradually to reach 200, showing that war at this time is 200 times as intense as during the middle ages. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, there is a considerable drop. This is the reason for the sudden appearance at this time...
Professor Sorokin states that he was startled by the results of the research of the 20th century. "In the past 25 years of the present century, the indices are so high that it is absolutely greater than all European wars taken together between the 11th, and 20th centuries. The index number is more than 2,000 for all Europe...
...week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision and modernization of all the hundreds...
...found new jobs, bringing the total of re-employment since March up to about 2,200,000. But the nation's jobless still exceeded 7,000,000, most of whom would have to go through another bleak winter before getting work. From Feb. 15 to Aug. 15 the index of all farm prices rose from 49 to 72, with 100 (the 1914 level) as the ultimate goal. In 1932 gross farm income was $5,143,000,000. This year it will be about $6,360,000,000. The 1914 level was over $9,000,000,000. Since the President...