Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve years ago Tufty gave up her job as managing editor of Charles G. Dawes's late Evanston (111.) News-Index to go to Washington with her husband, since divorced. Before she left, she drove around Michigan lining up correspondence assignments from small papers...
Cheaper. It looked as if the cost of food-the biggest component of the cost of living-was finally heading down. In its mid-September index of crop and livestock prices, the Department of Agriculture reported a three-point drop to 290 (1909-14 average: 100), the second drop in two months. The Journal of Commerce's wholesale food index also dropped half a point...
...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...
Those inflationary pressures had sent the cost of living to a new high, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week. By mid-July (latest recorded figures), the consumers' price index was up 9.7% over last year, up 76.2% over 1939. Food prices were up 12.3% over last year, up 131.9% over...
...port of Rotterdam is an index of what has happened to the Dutch economy. Before the war, the port hauled 39 million tons of sea traffic; last year it handled only 12 million. Barge traffic on the Rhine used to be 53 million tons a year...