Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most of the editorial work of rewriting the contents into brief paragraphs in the Bulletin, distributed to all Government officials who ask for it. Beside each item in the Bulletin is a record of its source, the paper...
...there are many departments, such as English and the Romance Languages, in which its importance cannot be ignored, and surely it is a handicap in none of them. More significant, however, is the value of Latin as a means to mental training in the secondary schools. No readier index exists to the quality of a secondary school preparing for a liberal arts college than the excellence of its instruction in Latin and Greek. To preserve uniformity in the admission to A.B. candidacy, the Latin reading requirement should be retained. All A.B. candidates should also be examined upon entrance...
...barometers. American Telephone & Telegraph has its figures on installations. General Motors has its sales to consumers. And until last week U. S. Steel had its monthly figures on unfilled orders. Then Steel's Chairman Myron Charles Taylor announced that the NRA had put an end to this historic index. Henceforth Steel will publish figures only on tonnage actually shipped...
...code provides that with certain minor exceptions no orders may be booked for delivery beyond the calendar quarter and that cancellations carry a penalty. Thus users of steel have reduced their ordering to a hand-to-mouth basis. Steel's backlog used to be an index of confidence in the business future. The new figures on shipments will have the weakness of almost all indices-the past tense...
...previous years eight juniors and 16 Seniors have been elected in November. This year only the 16 Seniors will be chosen, the election taking place Friday, November 17. The new policy will allow Midyear course grades to be counted for Juniors, as well as giving a more accurate index to their tutorial work. Initiation of the 16 Seniors will take place at a dinner on Monday, December...