Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel operations to 29% of capacity. Only a 1.4% drop from the previous week, this was the smallest since the present depression became apparent last August, aroused some hope. But car-loadings dropped another 6%, making the total 18% under last year; Barren's business index went to 67% of normal; auto output stood at 58,000 units v. 85,000 last fortnight and 102,000 year ago. And the New York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures...
...Bulletin Index is a pert weekly published in Pittsburgh and mainly concerned with Pittsburgh affairs. Last week its editors printed an indignant story (which they privately regarded as a great scoop) about a scientific "miscarriage of justice" which was incidentally an outrage to Pittsburgh's civic pride...
...metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index's point was that a shy, soft-spoken U. S. chemist, Dr. Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh, was the first to isolate Vitamin C and recognize it as such, that he announced his isolation in 1932, three weeks before Szent-Györgyi announced...
...story was ferreted out by an Index reporter who was once an instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. With the help of King's friends, he traced the history of the vitamin in scientific journals. Dr. King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated...
...simultaneous dishoarding of gold under rumors that the U. S. was about to raise the gold value of the dollar. Last week almost the exact reverse of this situation became evident. U. S. commodity prices were almost all at the year's cheapest and the Dow-Jones commodity index declined 3.26 to 52.60, a new low since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper to 9.06? per lb., lead to 4.67?per lb., rubber to 14? per lb. Though no informed businessman, economist or politician in the U. S. gave credence...