Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldest, commonest indicator of the state of U. S. business is the price of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. But while that curve produced at No. 11 Wall Street is almost always eventually right as to trend, at any given moment it is frequently apt to be wrong as a "state of-business" indicator. For stock prices have always had a high emotional content, are given to excesses of excitement or complacency...
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...
...Detailed information on TIME'S Index, its record in past years and the principles used in compiling it, may be obtained by writing the Editor of TIME, TIME & LIFE Building, New York City...
...crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly painted in. Yet, even at close range, the work unmistakably possesses the texture and rugged surface of fresco...
...former Crimson hockey stars returned to plague the Varsity ice squad Saturday night at the Arena as the St. Nicks, champion New York Amateurs, outplayed the Hoddermen by a close 3 to 2 score...