Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Industrial production is still dropping. Last week's Federal Reserve Board index showed April production down two points to 126, the lowest in 3½ years and twice the drop that Administration economists expected...
...great many books have been recently published here and abroad on the subject of food and nutrition written by physicians. But hardly any of these are listed in the library card index. There are somewhere between 50 and 100 books listed under Foods, but they are mostly between 50 and 100 years old, written before most of our present nutritional problems had arisen. These old books can all be taken out by the Harvard and Radcliffe students, unmarried and married with children. A few modern books are listed in the index, but they are mostly in the Medical School Library...
FOOD PRICES are expected to decline a bit this month, cut consumer price index for first time since August of 1956. Reason: heavier supplies of beef, fruits, vegetables are coming on market...
...Terms of Trade. In volume, trade with Latin America, the U.S.'s biggest supplier and biggest market, is slightly up. What pinches is a 15% slide in the terms-of-trade index from its 1954 peak. Coffee now brings 53½? per lb., down from 70? in 1954; refined copper trembles at 25? per lb., down from 43? in 1955; lead, zinc, tin, wool, hides, wheat and cocoa have all slipped. But such U.S. exports as cars, machinery and structural steel cost as much or more than ever...
...Immigration Commission attempts to manipulate Heikkila like a puppet have two unattractive aspects. It appears that the judiciary is the only branch of government left with a real concern for individual rights and for due process. And if Swing's spleen and Walter's wrist-slapping are any index of the nation's government, we are in a very bad way indeed...