Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Effective from April 28 to October 28, the fair tickets will be good lor two months, allow any number of stopovers, any selection of routes, so that no traveling step need be retraced. Up to 8,500 miles may be traveled for one fare. Straight coach tickets for this mileage would cost $130. Exultantly cried one-man Washington lobby, New York State's ex-Senator John A. Hastings: "The sole question remaining is, why not Postal-ize fares 365 days a year to all points...
...Next step was for statisticians to compile and average these fragments, thus produce what are called general indexes of business. Probably best known of all such composite indexes is the Federal Reserve Board's 20-year Index of Industrial Production, a weighted monthly measure of the quantity of production in some 40 industries. By the time these data are collected and the index calculated, the information is several weeks out of date-and the F. R. B. index is at its best in answering the question, "How was business last month...
From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...
William J. Dingham '16, Director of Athletics, earned his share of reflected glory when he mounted a step-ladder with a tape measure to confirm the record-breaking leap of 14 feet 6 and one-eighth inches made by Cornelius Warmerdam; the crowd roared its approval...
...stressing the "associate plan" as an immediate need and as a necessary complement to the establishment of the Yale Junior-Senior guarantee plan, the Council pointed out that although only 84 men could feasibly be accommodated as associate members in the Houses, it regarded this plan as a valuable step. In a questionnaire sent out by the Council, a large majority of the out-of-House men indicated their approval of associate House memberships...