Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department stores made up for a sorry October by putting in one of their best Novembers ever. This moved the Federal Reserve Board's index of sales up from October's 94 to 101-first time in almost ten years it has gone this high...
...picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
...library consists of some 16,000 books and publications on the period and includes a copy of the famous Princeton University "Index of Christian Iconography" and the Dumbarton Oaks "Census of Byzantine Objects in American Collections...
...forum's misunderstandings were widely shared by U. S. labor and capital last week. Items worrying labor: the retail-price index rose 2½% above November 1939, first time this year it has risen for a second successive month; a rise in textile prices means that clothing prices will follow: wholesale food prices have risen 1.5% in the past week; President Ward Melville of Melville Shoe Co. (Thom McAn shoes) talked last week of higher shoe prices. Items worrying business: White Motor Co. must spend an extra $300,000 this year on a 5?-an-hour increase; Midland Steel...
...last week, most of the complaining had been done by labor. Its statisticians do not like the comparative production, employment and payroll figures for the first half of 1940. Production, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board index, was back up to 96% of the flush first half of 1937; but employment had recovered to only 92% of the first half of 1937, and payrolls (reflecting skilled trades' overtime more than higher wages) to only 93%. One answer to this is the greater security labor now enjoys on the down side, as shown in the catastrophic first half...