Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange (where the Dow Jones industrial average rose 5 points), odd-lot traders for the first time in three months sold more shares than they bought. For four successive trading days small transactions in lots of less than 100 shares-supposed to be a good index of what the public, as opposed to the professional, is doing in the stockmarket-showed sales exceeding purchases. Since the public had been a consistent buyer during the recent market decline, this suggested to Wallstreeters that the old market adage, "The public is always wrong," was still true. But SEC suspected something...
When, last week, middleaged, pince-nezed Nadia Boulanger stood up before the Boston Symphony Orchestra and raised a long, bony index finger, it was the first time in its 57-year history that the second oldest U. S. orchestra* had sounded off under feminine leadership...
Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...
...biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...
Last week, utility and railroad stocks descended to new lows. Moody's commodity index was at 149, the New York Times' business index at 82.3 (down 21 points from a year ago). Car loadings stood at 570,000 cars, down 95,000 cars under last year's level. In Pittsburgh was held a meeting of the men whom depression hit first and hardest, the presidents of railroads. Although they offered no supporting facts, they strongly sustained each other's sentiments...