Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader not mistake Major Ganoe's volume for a history of U. S. military feats-a story of battles and trials at arms. In a way it is that, but only incidentally. In the 600 pages of the volume (200 of which are devoted to appendices and index), the battle of Gettysburg is described in just one sentence: "The three days' fighting so well known in American history resulted, after Pickett's charge, in the defeat of the Southern army...
Perhaps never before in our history have business men given such close attention to the price indices for commodities. For this situation the fear of-or sometimes the hope of- "gold inflation" is responsible. The Bradstreet indices for July 1 showed a smart upward trend, which the weekly index numbers of Prof. Irving Fisher (Yale economist) have corroborated. The publication of the wholesale price indices for commodities by the U.S. Department of Labor-considered by many the most scientific price index available-now reaffirms the upward price tendency...
...July, the Labor Department's index, covering 404 commodities, registered 147.0, compared with 144.6 for the preceding June, and 150.6 for July, 1923. Last month's was the first upward tendency shown since February, 1924. Of its nine principal commodity group indices, four declined, one remained unchanged, and four rose. Fuel and lighting fell from 175 last June to 173 last July, metals from 132 to 130, building materials from 173 to 169, and house furnishings from 172 to 171. Chemicals and drugs remained unchanged at 127. But farm products shot up from 134 to 141, food from...
...index finger of a new age in Turkey...
...greatest of the new type of lobbyist. The old type of lobbyist was a man who went around pulling wires, invoicing "pull," giving parties, wining and dining the men whom he expected to pass his bills. The new type of lobbyist is entirely aboveboard. His weapon is the card index. He keeps tab on everything and everybody that affects the things he is interested in. Mr. Silver's record in Washington is remarkable. The bills he has passed and the bills he has defeated are innumerable. When he wished to exert pressure he sent out word to his "constituents...