Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy Major Hume uncovered the flyleaf of the book in his hand, read: "Index-Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library), Authors and Subjects, Fourth Series...
Another authoritative psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Wallingford Darrah of Gardner, Mass., wondered if there is a mentally normal person in the whole world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
...reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped as low as 50 during the peak of post-War prices. The French index showed almost the same thing. German common stocks did even worse, the index dropping nearly to 10. When the mark lost all real value it stood at only...
General Motors Corp. makes more than 40% of all U. S. automobiles, has models in every price class. Its monthly sales figures, models of completeness, are a standard index of the U. S. motor trend. Last week GM reported that in March its dealers retailed 181,782 passenger cars and trucks, an all-time record for that month and the highest total for any month in GM history except...
Commissions from the advertising bureau earned the A. M. A. $26,224 last year. The Directory sold 8,280 copies at $15 each since it was issued in 1934. A new edition is being prepared, and the profit or loss of the old is ignored. The Index, a frankly philanthropic publication, cost the A. M. A. $44,439 last year...