Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pungent General Pownall would prove to be in his new job, no one could tell last week. Like all men entering on new duties, he was praised. But the only true test would be his performance-the immediate index of which would be results in Malaya, the ultimate index results in all eastern Asia...
TIME'S Index rose to 171.2 (estimated) in the Dec. 13 week, a new alltime high...
...city is itself a super-deathtrap. Big cities, and especially capital cities, are the index of a defender's ferocity. Madrid showed for 30 months that the Loyalists meant business. Warsaw was Poland's small core of guts. Oslo was the keyhole of Norway, and in it the key turned pretty easily. Paris fell without a whimper, and so, soon afterward, did France. The Germans threatened last week, 32 weeks after Yugoslavia was supposedly licked, to flatten Belgrade. Of all the capitals, Moscow looms as the most formidable...
...there are a few errors of omission and commission that we must try to ignore. It is to be regretted that the author stooped so low as to pun a phrase from "Fair Harvard" as a title for a chapter on printing--"Type of our ancestor's worth." The index of the book is very sketchy, and such material as the filling in of Back Bay is omitted. And certainly even poetic liceuse does not excuse the illustrator from depicting the Charles flowing serenely past Massachusetts Hall in the direction of what is now the Square. But these criticisms...
...themselves, the figures prove that money is circulating fast & furiously. But when they are compared with the Bureau of Labor's cost of living index, they become ominous (see chart). U.S. purchasing power (income divided by living costs) has soared since war's beginning, is higher than ever before. The widening gap between living costs and purchasing power is the "extra money" Treasury