Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Reserve Board Index of industrial production rose from 121 (1935-39 = 100) to an estimated...
...Chinese dragon's tail ever lashed in more vicious spirals than the current Chinese inflation. During five years of war China's cost of living index has soared from 100 to 3,400 and is still soaring...
...supplier is too small to get help: a one-man shop can often get the machine it needs through the Council's cross index of Detroit tools and equipment, can get advice on simplifying its operations from the best brains in the business. No problem is too big, nor is even Army red tape always sacred: when tank production slowed from scarcity of the alloy steels specified, Ordnance accepted substitutes recommended by the automotive engineers, had so much confidence in their judgment that it skipped the usual delaying tests on Army proving grounds...
According to Morin, the most discouraging exhibition at last Saturday's game was given by the numerous students in the cheering sections who get up and left before "Fair Harvard" had been sung. Describing the mass exodus as a "damn shame" he said that it was a good index of the torpid condition of the school's spirit...
...From Horwath and Horwath, famed bookkeepers of the bed-&-bottle business, comes statistical confirmation: Not alone in fabulous Washington, but in Chicago, Philadelphia and many another city, August hotel business was up 20% over last year. Room sales were up 16%, total restaurant sales zoomed 24%. Room occupancy, significant index of hotel prosperity, averaged 75%-highest since October...