Word: indexed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...temperament to promote stormy scenes and he never has anything of importance to say to the Press. What he has to say he says at the White House himself or sends word by Donald Richberg. He is valued also as a midway man on NRA theory. The index of cigaret consumption fluctuates with every economic curve-and the industry meets fluctuations by flexing not by fixing prices. S. Clay Williams is accordingly no price- fixer. Recently NRA surveyed 23 industries and came to the conclusion that those which had maintained their prices had bad employment records compared to those which...
...University in a reasonable manner of the real needs of the group and of the benefits which would accrue to the college as a whole by taking the proposed steps. Such an organization would give coherence and unity to the movement as well as providing a more accurate index of its scope and importance...
...their treatment of labor, a crucial index to the sentiment of any modern government, the powers that be have repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize...
...picture of the child's torso they draw a line through the centres of both hips. Then they draw a line through the roof of each hip socket (acetabulum). The angles formed by the roof lines crossing the centre line the doctors call the acetabular index. In normal hips the angles measure between 20° and 27.5°. If the angles exceed 27.5°, dislocation probably will occur...
...momentum in retail trade pushed on through January sales. Store buyers were crowding into the great merchandising centres in larger numbers than last year, with their budgets for spring inventories up from 5% to 15%. But most notable fact of the week was that the New York Times business index shot up past the 1934 high, established in April, into new high ground since the false boom of May-August...