Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overlooked; so are such famed phrases as "Damned clever, these Chinese" and "Elementary, my dear Watson"; so are such slogans as "Next to myself I like BVD best" and "War to end war," which are deeply impacted in U.S. folk speech. Also omitted, most inconveniently, is an index of authors...
...combined index of prices received by farmers increased 42%; the combined index of the prices they paid rose...
...Bengal; enemy accounts mentioned at least several more cruisers, another aircraft carrier, two battleships (including the old, U.S.-repaired Malaya). The British figured that the Japs had three of their newest 50,000-ton battleships, five aircraft carriers, a strong complement of cruisers and destroyers. Gloomiest index of the results of the first battles for the Bay was a British call for help from the U.S. Navy...
Production Off. TIME'S Index eased to 171.6 (estimated) in the April 4 week. Final figure for the preceding week was 172.0. A rise in steel output to an alltime peak was offset by lower miscellaneous freight loadings...
...physical volume of sales is here estimated by applying Fairchild's index of retail prices (converted to a January 1940 base) to the Department of Commerce's monthly estimate of total retail sales. Dollar volume for January, announced last week, was $4,212,000,000, up 16% above January 1941, but physical volume was down 1%. The top of the red area on the graph traces dollar volume of retail sales since Jan. 1, 1941; the bottom shows physical volume; the widening band of red records the progress of inflation as the two lines spread. The much narrower...