Word: indexes
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Second step is to calculate an index of current prices paid by farmers for the necessaries of life as well as for items used in production, like plows and tractors. Taxes on real estate and interest charges are added. In the month of March 1946, this procedure gave an index of 179, meaning that farm-commodity prices had to be 179% of the 1909-14 base prices to have the same purchasing power...
Next month, industrial production hit its low for the year. The Federal Reserve Board index, which had been at its 1945 high point of 232 in February and March, hit an October low at 163. Then production began to climb, and in spite of strikes recovered to nearly 70% of the wartime high before the year's end. Nor did anything disastrous happen to the economy when federal spending plummeted. The economic barometers went down, but they were not jarred enough to fall off the wall...
...with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed. The state got his head for a rabies test, found none. That saved Fala...
Though replacements kept the Midway's complement only a hundred or two below her wartime strength of 3,425 (excluding aviators), this was no index to the crew's efficiency, for most of them had never been to sea before-there were even chief petty officers in this class...
Long ago, the Almanac dropped such once-helpful bits as Carriage fares, and Hot Ashes to Resuscitate the Drowned. The style of its Farmer's Calendar has changed with the times ("Follow your markets closely by radio . . ."). But its index is still a key to rustic and rare information: Feasts and Fasts, Movable; Twilight, Length of; Zodiac, Signs...