Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experts in the obscure ways of heredity can often determine the fathers of illegitimate babies, decide whether a divorce-minded husband is the father of his wife's child, expose impostors who claim in heritances. As an index of heredity, facial resemblance is now deemed very unreliable. Eye color has scientific support but leaves too much room for reasonable judicial doubts. Fingerprints are only vaguely significant. Geneticists are fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns...
...margin of wages over living expenses on Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.'s standard of living index has reached a record high. A hypothetical average family which earned and spent $120 a month in 1933 (year the index was started) now earns $157.49 (at the same job) and needs to spend only $130.76 for the same standard of living...
...Pollster George Gallup found last week that: 1) Franklin Roosevelt's personal popularity had reached 71%-highest figure in the Institute's seven-year "vote of confidence" index; 2) of all Roosevelt 1940 voters, only 5% disapprove his present policies; of all Willkie voters, 38% now approve Roosevelt policies...
...successive weeks from mid-August, the index of 28 spot prices crept up 12% to a point 18% above pre-war levels, only 8% below the previous fall's false war boom. But whereas 1939's false boom was really confined to raw commodity prices, 1940's advance carried up practically all prices of manufactured goods. By mid-November, when the spot-price index was still under its September 1939 peak, the Bureau's much broader index of 863 wholesale prices had passed the 1939 peak, was up to 79.7% of its 1926 average. In short...
...index of 28 spot prices was only 5½% above August 1939, lard and hides were down over 35% from World War II's high, wool tops and wheat down 20%. Ten of the 28 commodities were selling under pre-war prices...