Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have taken the trouble to study the history of wheat as far back as the records go. We have followed this golden grain through thousands of years into antiquity, and out of this fascinating research has come this outstanding indisputable fact: wheat always has been the index to the price of all other commodities. The fat and lean years of every nation have always been dependent upon wheat...
...With no New Deal to titillate prices, only intra-Empire tariff preferences to promote business, Canada since last February has staged an economic comeback almost equal to that of the U. S. Her bank clearings are 27% ahead of last year, her car-loadings up 7%, her wholesale price index stands at 70.5 as compared to 66.6 a year ago and 63.6 in February. Drought has put her wheat up to 80? (from a low of 50?). Her busy gold mines are working virtually at 100% of capacity, making big profits with gold selling at a handsome premium. Electric power...
Besides listing the names alphabetically of all men and women enrolled, the full street address and city or town will be given as well. The addresses in all cases will be those filed as "local" in the card index. At least half the home addresses listed are from Massachusetts, and of these a great many are commuting every day from the environs of Boston to Cambridge. The only case of a commuting student who is living outside the state is residing at Four Corners...
...Giannini declared the Depression '"over." upped salaries in his Bank of America, restored dividends. In Akron the tire industry, rounding out its preparations for the National Industrial Recovery Act, topped two increases in tire prices with a 10% wage increase. In Washington the Federal Reserve announced that its index of department store sales stood only 2% under a year...
...Elizabeth Hunger, 33, his private secretary; in Larchmont, N. Y. Because of his knowledge of market operations, he was called to testify at the U. S. Senate's investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns 2,200. He once had two live elephants carried to the roof of the old Waldorf-Astoria to entertain his guests...