Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KARANT Aviation Editor Evanston News-Index Evanston...
...bull's transmitting capacity. The Prentice group chose the method of systematically comparing the yield of bulls' daughters with the yield of their dams. In such wise Mr. Prentice's geneticist-in-chief arrived at Mount Hope's crowning achievement-the Mount Hope Bull Index...
First bull index published in any trade paper, the Mount Hope formula appeared in 1928. It was in two forms. The Commercial Form, for dairymen unwilling or unable to deal with fractions, simply placed the milk ability of the progeny halfway between the inheritances of the parents. Thus if the dam's production was 8,000 lb. and the daughter's 10,000, the bull's index was 12,000. The index was of course computed on the basis of as many dam-daughter comparisons as possible...
That certain stage: "When the volume of industrial production, now in the 80's [Federal Reserve index], reaches 100 and works above this level for several months...
Average retail price of beef is 17% above a year ago; pork chops 34%; lard 70%; poultry 16%; eggs 23%; canned peas 22%. Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...