Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business Index. Fifty selected local postoffices serve the department as an index of postal revenues and, consequently, as an index of general business conditions...
Parcel Post. Fourteen years ago these 50 offices would have consti- tuted no business index, because in 1913 fourth-class mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...this peculiar organization are assembled some of the conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine in this benighted land. For example, in 1925 the chairman of the section on radiology was Mr. George S. Foden, a practitioner of electronic medicine, who read a paper on 'The Eye as an Index Factor to Personality'; Osteopath Francis A. Cave, an honorary vice-president of the Medical Liberty League, also devoted himself to electronic practice; William Howard Hay, chairman of the section on advanced medicine, had a diabetic cure and one for hay-fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter...
...Washington, Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics Charles E. Baldwin declared: "We [the U. S. Department of Labor] do not know and nobody knows how many persons there are out of employment [in the U. S.]." Mr. Baldwin explained that the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes monthly "an unemployment index which shows the trend of employment, that is, whether the number employed is increasing or decreasing." The latest (April) report of this nature by the Department of Labor declares: "The level of employment in April, 1927 was 2.4% lower than in April, 1926, and pay roll totals were .6% lower...
Other items include 100 packages of diaper cloth; electric lamps; 200 specially-designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor...