The author claimed the famous pilot survived a Pacific Ocean plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. At the end of World War II, U.S. forces purportedly found her in Japan and secretly repatriated her to New Jersey. There, Earhart took the name Irene Bolam and became a banker.
What is the Producer Price Index (PPI)? The Producer Price Index represents a family of indices that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
The Labor Department said its Producer Price Index edged up 0.1 percent, in line with economistsâ expectations, after a 0.4 percent rise in June. In the 12 months through July, producer prices increased 1.7 percent after rising 1.9 percent in the year to June.