Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands of Palaces and Bijous. The nation split...
...adding solutions of the enzymes to homogenized milk, West fixed the normal curdling time. Then he repeated the process with blood specimens containing the inhibitors, and noted the longer curdling times. His figures gave an index to the normal strength of the inhibitors...
Businessmen, anxiously scanning the skies for a clue to the economic weather, saw more dark clouds ahead. Industry was still cutting back production; the Federal Reserve Board's production index had dropped in May to 174 (v. 192 a year before) and had gone on down in June to an estimated 170. Unemployment was still rising. In June, with more than one million extra job-seekers out of school and college, it rose to 3,788,000, the highest in seven years...
...along its way back to a normal route had the U.S. traveled? Harvard Marketing Professor Malcolm P. McNair squinted at the scenery and announced that one-third to one-half the trip had been completed. He guessed the index of industrial production, now around 175, would drop to about 155 before starting up again. The rest of the ride should not be "too severe," said McNair, certainly "less severe" than...
...background, Hickenlooper was left alone to explain just what he meant by Lilienthal's "incredible mismanagement" of AEC (TIME, June 6). If his first week's evidence was any sample, he didn't have much to go on. Riffling through a pack of file-index cards, Hickenlooper could produce only two examples: that excessive turnover among AEC employees showed "a startling lack of continuity"; that Lilienthal had shown "brazen effrontery" by granting emergency security clearances to 3,280 AEC employees, pending a full FBI check...