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Over long periods these indices reflect the totality of commodity price changes, but they often lag in revealing price trends over periods of less than a year. For daily distribution by the United Press, a more responsive index is compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from the spot prices of 30 basic commodities. This roster of prices (with 1930-32 as 100) was at 68.51 in March 1933, at 129.96 last October, and by last week was up to 144.62. The Associated Press compiles its own index of 35 commodities for its member newspapers. From a depression low of 41.44 (February...
...free. The program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras Io Son Bella Banchieri Follow Me Down to Carlow Irish Folk Song (Arranged by Percy Fletcher) Cantate Domino (Motet) Hassler The Choral Society Glory to God in The Highest Pergolesi Chorus and Orchestra Choral Prelude: Christ Lag in Todesbanden" Bach (Arranged by M. H. Holmes) The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras Jerusalem Parry Orchestra and Chorus
...give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick for preventing lag is remembered...
...embryonle beards with Palmolive shaving cream, Harvard men prove their preference through large purchases of this article at the Coop. And on the dental side, Harvard molars benefit from liberal doses of Squibb's tooth-paste. Coop sales also show that shaving soaps and tooth powders are inclined to lag before imposing numbers of lavatory aids contained in the tube...
...Washington last week Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams anxiously announced that eleven Army engineers were in the field, would shortly report on ways to speed up relief construction. Along with this promise to do better, relief officials also let it be known that the lag in relief progress was not all their fault. Tactfully they pointed out that Comptroller General McCarl had released to date only $585,000,000 for $1,900,000,000 worth of WPA projects approved by President Roosevelt...