Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...
Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...
With this issue TIME begins publication of a weekly Index of Business Conditions. Different in objective from the indexes most businessmen know, TIME's index will report on the financial soundness, rather than the volume, of U. S. business...
Other indexes like the New York Times', Business Week's, Barron's-using fewer and what are considered more sensitive components-report on business activity with less time lag, manage to agree closely with the F. R. B. curve...
...Skinner and Co. Inc. In collaboration with them, the TIME Index of Business Conditions was worked out on these principles.* The final weighted average of accounting ratios is based on no assumed "normal." adjusted to no economists' idea of "long term trend." It is, in effect, simply a report on how sound business was last week, a subject which TIME considers news...