Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the improvement in sentiment was caused by a turnabout in important commodities. The Annalist index of prices for July rose to 92.2 from 88.6 in June, the sharpest gain for one month since this index was first compiled in 1925. All the ground lost since early February was made up. The gain was apparently touched off by hogs, although the rise in petroleum last April was an indication of what might happen. While hogs had re-actecLfrom their highs of late June (TIME, July 11), last week they made up much of the loss. After hogs, cattle began...
...ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were his past record and the still-sagging index of business conditions. In General Dawes's record are the following utterances: "People do not realize that conditions are gradually improving." June 5, 1930. "It [the moratorium] is an augury of improved financial conditions." June 20, 1931. In Chicago, General Dawes will again direct, as chairman. Central Republic Bank & Trust...
...commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more susceptible...
...sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase-'Be Yourself -I believe it is slang-seems a fair index of your attitude. It is good Ibsen...
...Ford as the small town mechanic who was borne to success in spite of himself by the enthusiasm for mass production. The famous occasion when Ford replied to the question, "Has there ever been a revolution in the United States?" with, "Yes, in 1812," is offered as a sufficient index of his intelligence. The Peace Ship and the five-dollar-wage are presented as the ineptitudes of naive paternalism...