Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University issued a survey report on Maine elections back to 1874 which seriously qualified the political saying "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation." By complex statistics the council showed that Maine's "off-year' voting erred by an average of 20 House seats as an index of the November election...
...workers-that is, one employe out of 20 was looking for a job. Because no direct count of unemployment by census enumerators has ever been taken before, no comparisons were available to indicate the economic spread and shift of joblessness. The count was five months old. By means of index averages and estimates from industrial centres the Labor Department has reported a recurrent monthly decrease in employment since April. The political importance of unemployment in this year's campaign has long been obvious. Republicans minimized the issue, guessed not more than 1,500,000 gainful workers were idle. Democratic...
Profits? How much curtailment of production and unsettled price structure (July index of petroleum product prices: 61 against 73.3 last year) is hurting earnings was shown by these developments last week...
...surgery. Pasteur, strange to say, was himself not a physician but a chemist and was studying fermentations when he made his monumental discovery. Thus it was left for one of his followers, Koch, a medical man. to identify certain disease germs. Considerably later Ehrlich, working with colors as an index of the susceptibility of micro-organisms to drugs, succeeded in formulating one invaluable remedy. These investigators deserve full credit for their contributions to our knowledge of pathogenic organisms, but neither is to be compared with the great scientist who originated the conception...
Statisticians comparing May 1930 and May 1929 business found many decreases, few increases. According to the most recent Crandall Pierce Business Index, last month showed freight car loadings down 9%, commodity prices down 6%, automobile production down 31%, pig iron production down 13%. Among the comparatively few increases were commercial failures, up 9%. Yet last week one young industry prospered and expanded, cheered by its demands an old industry. For when Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. announced that it would build a 1,250-mi. natural gas pipe line from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, it evidenced not only increasing...