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...pointed out that earnings of small corporations in the year ending with 1955's third quarter jumped to $627 million, up 42% from the previous year. The climb, said SBA, was proof that they were swiftly pulling out of their post-Korea slump. Though the small business earnings index (1947-49 = 100) was still well below wartime peaks, in a year it moved up 21 points to 67, and is still picking...
Fangio's fine performance, in addition to capturing $3,000 first prize money, earned third place for "index of performance," a complicated calculation by which achievement is measured against theoretically possible performance. First and second: two 1.5-liter German-made Porsches...
...certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having fun" and "Scurvy, disease of sailors." The point of going to so much trouble is also, as even the scurviest sailor will suspect, to be found in the index, under the heading: "Husband...
FOOD PRICES are at their lowest in five years. On the Government's price index, the average cost of food in January tumbled 6% below the 1952 peak, with meat 22% cheaper...
Some of the poems have never been published, and are therefore of especially great interest to historians and critics, Jackson said. An index of the collection will soon be published. By terms of the purchase agreement, the manuscripts will never be used to change or "improve" the accepted readings of the poems...