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...Prime index of future business trends is given four times a year by the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards, through which more than 85% of all U.S. shippers tell the railroads how many carloads they expect to ship in the coming quarter. In 19 years the average of their forecasts has been correct within...
...production was at a fast clip in the June 27 week, and TIME'S Index ended at 174.6 (estimated), only 0.2 point below the alltime high. Of the Index's three ingredients, freight carloadings and power production dipped slightly, but steel mills boomed ahead. Last week they turned out 1,664,600 tons of ingot, lifting June output to the highest in U.S. history. Thanks to soaring production in the past six months, shipbuilding (Naval and Merchant) is now the No. 1 user of steel, this year will use about 10,000,000 tons of plates and shapes...
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Thanks to a snappy rise in electric-power production, TIME'S Index rose to 174.6 (estimated) in the week of June 20, 0.6 point above the preceding week's final figure. Booming aircraft, ship and chemical plants in the Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
...June 13 week TIME'S Index of production eased to 173.5 (estimated), one-tenth of a point below the preceding week's final figure. Of the Index's three ingredients, steel was unchanged, power output and carloadings were up less than seasonally. A year ago the Index stood at 153.6; month...