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...doing, he has followed the example of Britain and Canada. Both countries tried general price-freezing regulations without too much effect. But both have brought critical cost of living under control to a far greater extent than in the U.S. In Britain, for instance, the cost-of-living index (see chart) has actually declined slightly during the past year, after zooming way up before the British subsidy plan took hold...
...hand ends in Galicia. It has an index finger...
...General Staff threw the candidate system into high gear, ordered 350,000 additional officers. Men who showed prom ise were called from the ranks in a hurry. The educational index of new officers dropped from 80% college graduates to less than 20%. But the Army got its officers...
Best health record in the world is that of the 87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Their infant-mortality rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 infant deaths per 1,000 live births last year-enough to make any health officer whistle.* When the owners began the medical program in 1929, the rate on a typical plantation was 160.6 among half a dozen nationalities: Filipinos, Japanese, a conglomerate of Hawaiians, Chinese and Caucasians, a sprinkling of Portuguese and Puerto Ricans...
Taking it up from there, the Crimson went on to give its view on the significance of the test in the light of the attitude assumed towards it by the unhappy freshmen. "Just how many people answered in good faith is difficult to determine. Probably the best index question would be that on the Civil War President. The Times says that 25 per cent of the American college freshmen do not honestly know the answer to this question. A consensus of American History teachers at Harvard and other colleges has revealed 2 as the more likely figure...