Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that it is a pretty fair index of the general efficiency and alertness of the Cambridge Traffic Department in regard to the way that automobile and pedestrain traffic is taken care of at the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Plympton St. I have been the witness of six or seven accidents there and have seen the results of many others, and with the accident of a week ago Sunday in which a Hudson coach was overturned and two people injured, one of them very seriously, I have come to the conclusion that either the Traffic Department is originally...
Commerce. Secretary Herbert C. Hoover called attention to "one of the most astonishing transformations in economic history," which he declared has taken place in the last five years-increase of wage levels accompanied by a decrease in commodity prices. He gave sta- tistics in index numbers based on pre-War conditions...
...Manhattan's wealthy Hebrews is a small man named Louis Wiley. As Business Manager of the New York Times, he is the right-hand prop of Adolph S. Ochs, famed proprietor of that newspaper. There are few facts about newspaper publishing that are not noted in the card-index under Louis Wiley's hat. Recently he held forth on the topic of waste...
Freckles, her second book, has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its appearance in 1904 is some index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great...
...average price index of the 300 commodities included rose from 160.0 on May 1 to 161.4 on June 1. Yet this was almost entirely due to the sharp advance in prices of breadstuffs from 176 to 188 over the same period. This was more than sufficient to offset declines in meats from 159 to 158, in clothing from 184 to 181, metals from 133 to 131. Meanwhile, dairy and garden products remained unchanged at 121, other food products at 187, miscellaneous commodities...