Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government receives $500 every year from the average family, and that every household is responsible for a $1000 share of the government debt. On the basis of these and similar calculations, the League "counts it a grievance that the government activities have not shrunk with the declining business index." Yet the authors of the article in question show that by calculations from the same figures as those which the League used, the average family can be proved to receive $500 a year from the government, and to possess one $1000 government bond. In addition, one third of the money spent...
During the 1933-34 crop year "minimum prices" were to be replaced by 1909-1919 farm commodity averages correlated with industrial prices over the same period, thus theoretically giving Agriculture price-parity with Industry. Sample complexity: the index figure of hog prices was to be linked with the Federal Reserve's index figure of factory employment. The excise tax on each commodity would not be stable but, at the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, would fall as prices rose, rise as prices fell...
...prove to the House that the Philippines, which he visited last autumn, are ready for independence, South Carolina's Hare, H. R. 7233's sponsor, cited these personal observations: "The school is the best index to the character and intelligence of a people. . . . I was greatly impressed with the architectural design of all the school buildings. . . . They are all painted. ... I was further impressed with the lawns, flowers, shrubbery . . . the orderly arrangement of desks and chairs. . . . The furniture was not marred with pencil marks. Placards were placed high on the walls of schoolrooms. Some I noted...
Making few other drastic changes, the Club whipped its cumbersome code into shape, gave it an index...
...burdens placed upon the Athletic Association had not increased, and the student enrollment had not grown in large numbers, any ratio measured by rising costs or by any other index might be a very simple formula to follow. Since 1912 the whole scheme of athletics has changed. "Athletics for all" at that time was a mere phrase, and no one dreamed that it would ever reach the reality it had today, not only at Harvard, but at all other colleges. To be compelled to take care of 2194 undergraduates and graduates in the matter of athletic facilities was then unbelievable...