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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even imported commodities had a part in last week's show. Rubber sold above 16½? per lb. for the first time since 1929. In one day silk shot up 5? per lb. to $1.67. The Annalist's wholesale commodity index registered the sharpest weekly gain since the 1933 inflation scare. Only items likely to be depressed by drought are meat and hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual...
...most generally accepted and widely quoted single figure on the rise and fall of U. S. business is the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production. In this index the normal 100 is Calculated on the years from 1923 through 1925. Since that time the population of the U. S. has increased 13%. and living standards have presumably advanced. Disregarding the advance in living standards, Cleveland Trust Co.'s famed Vice President Leonard P. Ayres recently declared that "we shall not be much in error if we consider 113 to be normal now." The latest Reserve Board figure (April...
...past three months U. S. business activity has continued to mount. The New York Times's weekly index, which does make allowance for longtime upward trends, has been above 100 for several weeks. Power production last week was the highest on record, exceeding even the previous high set last December when nights were long and there was no daylight saving. U. S. railroads last week loaded 690,716 freight cars, 21% more than in the same week of last year. Steel mills were operating at 74% of capacity, and even U. S. Steel Corp. was expected to show appreciable...
Employment still lags far behind production, latest Reserve Board index figure being about 85 compared to 100 on industrial output. Payrolls are even farther behind, at about 80. Contra-seasonal gains in factory employment and payrolls were reported last week, much to the "surprise" of Secretary of Labor Perkins, who said the increase was a "symbol of underlying confidence." Notable was the fact that payrolls' in heavy industry showed a 26% gain over May 1935. According to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the number of hired hands per 100 U. S. farms increased from 73 in the spring...
...leafed into the book, read what he had written: "The beginning of a new series of the Index-Catalog . . . is a milestone in the scientific advancement of the world. This work is not only the medical standard, but the most comprehensive piece of bibliography ever attempted in any field of knowledge. That the fourth series begins in the year in which the library celebrates its centennial is also significant. . . . In 1873 Surgeon John Shaw Billings, U. S. Army, began the gigantic labor of preparing the Index-Catalog, a work in which both authors and subjects, the medical literature...