Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consistent offense to millions of Americans of Washington speeches charging them with complacency and apathy, although the people have shown by every index that they were far ahead of the Administration in willingness to meet the price...
...means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce for the inevitable tidal wave of post-war civilian demand. $40 for $4,000. An index of what such wholesale destruction would mean came from Detroit, where the auto industry estimated that scrapping their 1942 model equipment (to which Nelson specifically referred when he talked about machinery packed away in grease) would mean a wait of nine to thirteen months after the war before a single...
...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...
...Four days of sweat, bad food and virgin jungle. A bushmaster bit me in the left index finger-had to shoot the end of the finger off to avoid dying...
...factories produced at a near-record rate in the Sept. 12 week and TIME'S Index stood at 182.3 (estimated), only one-fifth of a point below the all time record...