Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing these facts, U. S. Industry closely watches the affairs of the motor-makers, for their demands stimulate many lines. And, beyond this definite relationship, automobile sales are a sensitive index to the public's purse. As yet the industry has shown no marked improvement from the depression caused by its excess of production on the eve of a business slump. Some dealers still have unwieldy stocks of second-hand cars. Although inventories of the manufacturers and dealers are in the best condition in years and cash reserves are high the industry as a whole is overexpanded. The Automobile...
...solitaire diamond . . . slipping it off my finger I dropped it in my corsage . . . I announced : I have lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around one of the loveliest solitaires I possess today." During the War, the book's index relates: "My house [in Paris] was the social head quarters of the U. S. A. High Command...
...Index to the probable disintegration was the resignation, as chairman of the Insti-ute, of Colonel John H. Price, president of Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...
...rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other day he sent Mr. Blumenthal proofs of now inoffensive pages. Therefore last week Jews lifted Crowell's Roget's "from their index expurgatorius...
...world 10,000 circulars, like those advertising criminals wanted, with Judge Crater's photograph and description prominently displayed: "Age, 41 years; height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false teeth ... tip of right index finger somewhat mutilated." Few days later Mrs. Crater received a letter: "Your husband is alive and safe. . . . We believe there is something wrong with his head. ... I beg to inform you that unless $20,000 in bills of small denominations is delivered to us per instructions you will see him again...