Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes us feel sorry for Godfrey. And nosegays to Gall Patrick, the sour note in the family, and Eugene Pallette, the father of the raving crew...
...index of Recovery, U. S. Steel's dividend policy may have been distorted by the new Federal tax on undistributed profits, a measure calculated to spur any directorate to generous treatment of stockholders. What was significant was that U. S. Steel's directors had the means with which to be generous. In the past five years the net result of U. S. Steel's operations was a loss of $132,000,000. In announcing the dividend action Chairman Myron Charles Taylor reported that U. S. Steel's profits for the third quarter of 1936 were...
Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...
Most reliable index of general business conditions in Pittsburgh is how dirty people's faces are. By last week with steel production touching a new Recovery high (75% of capacity) Pittsburghers were good & grimy. Boomtime crowds swarmed the narrow streets of the Golden Triangle, Pittsburgh's famed business and shopping district at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers...
Whatever the index need--prices, employment, output, or trade--the conditions of paper countries improve in a sensational manner relatively to those in gold countries. Naturally depreciation of itself could not have accomplished these miracles, but in freeing nations of the concern over reserves, budgetary balances, and in assuring these countries of low money rates and necessary monetary expansion, the authorities show a resort to exchange depreciation gave their economics the necessary stimulus. In so doing, moreover, they put pressure on gold countries, now faced with "unfair" competition, also to give up the gold standard. The longer the list...