Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass of the exhibits were exercises in mediocrity. Such artists as Sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione, Muralist James Michael Newell, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Bohrod and a sprinkling of others were able to produce work which seemed, by contrast, superb. An innovation was a new department entitled Index of American...
...hyperbole, for the first of Boulder Dam's 15 generators of 115,000 h. p. each will not be ready for operation until next month. Only one little 3,500 h. p. generator to supply electricity at the damsite was ready last week. The President paused, raised his index finger and pressed the gold telegraph key that has launched countless ballyhooed enterprises...
...scholastic apparatus of his long histories has been omitted from this vivid chronicle by the author. In the small area of 489 pages (plus index) he has attempted to tell, for the benefit of the average reader, what the average reader, will want to know. He has succeeded amazingly well. The undergraduate will turn immediately to the chapters on student customs and traditions, which, with those on the development of the various clubs, of athletics and other activities make fascinating reading. But these are by no means all he will find delightful. There are accounts of the political manipulations (some...
...They not only make all other machines but can also reproduce themselves. Composed of scores of small companies, many family-owned, the machine-tool industry is really more basic than steel, for it takes machine tools to make the machines which make steel. Machine-tool orders are a prime index of the business outlook, reflecting as they do businessmen's confidence in adding new equipment or in replacing the old or obsolete...
Last week the Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers reported that orders booked in June were at a new high since 1929. The Association's index rose 8% from May to 128.8, which was 41% above a year ago. The May-June gain was recorded in the face of an actual drop in foreign orders, an important item with U. S. machine toolmakers. Except for 1929 and a few months in 1928 business was better than at any time in the past 16 years. The shortage of good machinists, noted early in Recovery, had become so serious that many...