Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After every game each man on the team, including those who warmed the bench, is expected to write a report about the opposing players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three...
Barron's weekly business index, reflecting only the first full week of the strike, slumped 15.1 points to 160.2. At this rate of fall, the strike had cost the U.S. an estimated $700 million in goods & services...
...paying for the loss in coal and steel production for a long time to come. It would be more than a month before overall production got back to where it was-if then. The stock market, full of rosy hopes for a quick resurgence, pushed the Dow-Jones industrial index up 4.75 points in the first post-strike day of business. But the all-around shaking up which the economy had had might well hasten the recession that nearly everybody feared...
...thermometer of U.S. industrial production dropped rapidly last week in the big freeze of the coal strike. Barron's weekly business index skidded from 182.8 (1936-39 average: 100) to 175.3. Although it reflected only the first four days of the strike, the drop was almost two points...
...tremendous prods and an index of student opinion appear for the Council Constitutional Committee in the results of the poll. Almost unanimously, the present hit-or-miss method of Council contact with the student body at large was condemned as being inadequate, while the "grievance committee" idea received nearly as large an affirmative vote. If the Council has not previously considered this tenuousness of contact as a major problem, it would probably do well to reflect on the absolute weight of the majority...