Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among its accomplishments were a much-publicized renaissance of mural painting, a great work of national scholarship in the Index of American Design,* free art classes for children and adults in about 60 towns and cities, the employment of 5,000 artists. The year was also notable for two great gifts to the public by rich men: the Mellon collection to the U. S. Government and the exceptional Bache collection...
Carloadings are a primary index of business conditions. Still more primary are stomach-loadings. But unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will...
...industrial leaders and soothsayers. Among the few whose remarks are taken seriously is Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Last week Colonel Ayres was not impressed by a 50? rise in scrap prices and the first rise since August in the New York Times business index. Like some M.Ps. in Britain (see p. 14), he predicted mainly gloomy things...
...Manhattan to raise funds for the War-devastated Lille University. The abbe had had little formal preparation for his task. He had grown up in a provincial village in the north of France, studied at the University of Lille, written a religious volume that was placed on the Index, a biography of the Bronte sisters that won him a small but solid transatlantic reputation...
...past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with Dow-Jones industrial averages reaching 128. Moody's commodity price index was up from 144.6 on November 24 to 149.2 last week with industry buying heavily for the first time in months. And Bernard E. (''Sell 'em Ben") Smith, most famed of Wall Street bears, for the first time in his life came out as co-underwriter...