Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those are the questions that the Ecco public Market of Harvard Avenue, Allton set out to answer when they began keeping an accurate index of the customers and the beverages purchased. And the results of that survey indicate that students prefer Scotch whiskey to all students other delicacies...
When he gets down to post-Civil War times, which even milder historians characterize as financially scandalous, McConaughy's progress becomes a dervish-whirl in a mist of vituperative facts. An index of his malefactors would read like the Social Register. Too over-violent throughout to be persuasive, Who Rules America? chokes over its own too-choleric mixture of fact and fanaticism...
...what the President's proclamation aimed at. Last week in spite of the President's proclamation the dollar was worth 61? to 63? to those who sold it to buy gold in Europe; it was worth 138? (according to the Department of Labor's commodity price index) to citizens who used it to buy what they needed in the U. S. The only person in the world to whom the dollar was worth 59? was the Secretary of the Treasury who was using it to buy gold at that price...
...startling in this sorry performance of commodity markets. Traders had long since discounted dollar devaluation, and even a dose of green-backery. What whetted the stock speculator's appetite was unmistakable signs of better business. Most significant sign last week was the announcement of mail order sales-infallible index of rural spending. Sears, Roebuck reported January sales 30% above last year, Montgomery Ward 45%. Ward's retail stores sales were up 21%, its mail order sales...
THIS book is one of the most usable of the recently published collections of drinker's recipes: in the first place, the pages and cover are waterproofed; then there is a more than adequate system of indices, including both the ordinary type of index and a cut-back page effect; the result is that anyone can locate the best drink of a given base in a minimum of time, and with a minimum of thought. One can, by employing the manual, adjust the drinks to what there is on hand in the way of liquors and mixers with uncanny accuracy...