Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towns & cities of the U. S. have heard with rising pleasure the raucous music of the whistle. It is national recovery at an unprecedented pace, a strident prelude to National Recovery by Executive Command (see p. 12.). The percussions have been abundantly recorded in the cool abstractions that are indexes. Last week electric power production soared (for the sixth consecutive time), to 91.7% of normal. Steel production, most potent barometer of basic industrial activity, surged up another 3% to 47% of capacity, more than three times the rate last March. Bank clearings went to 6.3% above last year...
Prices. No less amazing has been the rise in prices. Moody's index of sensitive commodity prices shot from 78.7 to 123.8 last week. Wheat has jumped from a 1933 low of 48¾? a bushel to 75½?, cotton from 5.90? a pound to 9.45?. copper from 5? a pound to 8? hogs from $2.85 a cwt. to $4.60. Between $2,000,000.000 and $3,000,000,000 has been added to the value of U. S. crops. A booming New Deal market has swelled stock values $12,000,000,000 and bond values...
...fair index for 1929 may be had from the proportions in which shares of Standard Brands and Alleghany Corp. were offered to the partners Corp...
...both contrary to the usual season trend: an announcement by Rhode Island's labor commissioner that industrial employment rose 5.6% in April, that at the close of the month it stood nearly 10% above a year ago. Only Rhode Island industry reporting no gain was jewelry. Another consumer index was the Federal Reserve's figure on April department store sales, showing a 9% drop from twelve months ago against a 22% average drop for the first four months of this year...
...York Times index of general business activity advanced for the seventh consecutive week to the highest point in 17 months...