Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how many people answered in good faith is difficult to determine. Probably the best "index" question would be that on the Civil War President. The Times says that 25 per cent of American college freshmen do not honestly know the answer to this question. A consensus of American history teachers at Harvard and other colleges revealed 2 as the more likely figure...
...January, the Federal Reserve Board announced last week, the nation's straining factories reached a new milestone, pushed the Board's index of industrial production to 200% of the 1935-39 average. That is 89% above the U.S. production level before war broke out in 1939, but only 16% above January 1942. Production experts still hope that the U.S. can squeeze out perhaps another 10% increase (to around 220 on FRB's index) by midsummer-which could mean a considerably greater increase in military output. But that is about the ceiling...
...January sinkings during the period of tumultuous North Atlantic storms were no index of what the rate may be during the hunting days of spring. On the extent of Allied, power to stop that drive, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander made a sadly illuminating remark: "We want the equipment to do the job properly...
...announcer asked his listeners to write, and count the pennies which he besought them to enclose. That would give Mrs. Mullane time to reflect upon British history, might give her enough pennies to buy war bonds for her son in the Marines. It would also give the sponsor an index to the pulling power of his show...
...while buyers and money were in abundance, goods were not. Best index of the seller's market: retailers (for whom wholesalers used to give lavish parties) this time frantically reached for the dinner checks. But at week's end many a buyer went home with nothing but entertainment to put on his expense account. Cracked one furniture manufacturer: "We're paying a bonus to the salesman who sells the least...