Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour raise, plus an automatic boost of 3? an hour at the end of the first year. They also agreed that their wages should be adjusted up or down each quarter to compensate for sizable movements of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "cost-of-living" index. For a while, it looked as if the union had played it smart: three months after the contract was signed, it got a cost-of-living boost of 3? an hour. But after that, the autoworkers had to take two pay cuts totaling 3? an hour (although they also got an equal increase...
Last week, there was more bad news for the union, good news for motorcar buyers. Because the B.L.S. index had declined 1.6 points, G.M. announced that it was lopping another 2? off the wages of 290,000 hourly-paid workers, and $10 off the quarterly pay of 72,000 salaried employees. As it had done before, G.M. simultaneously cut the prices of its cars-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on the most expensive Cadillacs. But the union no longer liked the double-edged sword. It announced last week that when the G.M. contract expires in May, it will wash...
General Motors out prices and wages yesterday as the government announced that the U.S. cost of living in mid-January was 0.4 percent less than mid-December and 2.3 percent less than a year ago. Wages for 362,000 GM workers, which are tied directly to the Federal Price Index, were reduced two cents an hour: In Detroit, GM announced price cuts ranging from $10 to $40 on all its cars and trucks, effective immediately...
Powers checks the girls' height and personality with the requirements of the applicant listed, as Stuart H. Troft 53 is doing (right), on index cards...
...Lexicographer Partridge "no word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...