Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of temperature and humidity, computed by adding the readings for both and dividing by two. Weathermen called it a "fool word" but according to Mr. Hevener (who last week escaped the humiture by motoring to Quebec) this figure "gives the man in the street a better index of the summertime torture to which he is being subjected." Peak Manhattan humiture: (with temperature 76 and humidity 98% of saturation...
Admired by critics of all schools were 50 skilled drawings and water colors from the Index of American Design. Like the State Guides produced by the Writers' Project, this nationwide compilation is the outcome of WPA teamwork. The stimulation of group work appearing elsewhere among the 320-odd paintings, prints, murals and sculpture on view was an occasion for pride to Daniel Catton Rich, the Art Institute's cheerful, hulking young director...
...From 1921 to 1929 total industrial net profits rose sharply, but the price index dropped from...
...York Stock Exchange seat sold for $80,000 last week, up 57% in three weeks. Brokers' loans, always the best index of speculative interest in the market, rose to $537,000,000, a $22,000,000 increase in two weeks. Trading on the Exchange, however, turned down last week in the reaction which Wall Street always expects as speculators cash in their profits. One day sales volume hit the highest point since October 29, (2,774,320); two days later volume tumbled to the lowest in three weeks (592,300). Dow-Jones industrial averages at week...
...broad index of business is the volume of bank loans to commerce, industry and agriculture, tabulated each week in 101 cities by the Federal Reserve System. During Recovery I these loans revived with general business in the spring of 1936, by last October reached a peak of $4,868,000,000. Then with Depression II they plopped to $3,916,000,000 for the week ended June 22. Last week, for the first time in 21 weeks, the Federal Reserve's tabulation showed a rise. The substantial $20,000,000 rally made economists wonder if the turn had come...