Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steelmakers argue that the base price of steel is too low to start with. On the U.S. Department of Labor wholesale price index, steel prices between 1939 and April 1956 rose 131%. about the average for all commodities. However, many industries where demand was also high got much bigger price boosts, e.g., nonferrous metals went up 195%, lumber and wood products 305%. Furthermore, as Republic Steel President C. M. White points out, the industry's net income in relation to its worth has usually lagged well behind other industries. As one result, says White, steel stocks have a market...
...pointed out that earnings of small corporations in the year ending with 1955's third quarter jumped to $627 million, up 42% from the previous year. The climb, said SBA, was proof that they were swiftly pulling out of their post-Korea slump. Though the small business earnings index (1947-49 = 100) was still well below wartime peaks, in a year it moved up 21 points to 67, and is still picking...
Fangio's fine performance, in addition to capturing $3,000 first prize money, earned third place for "index of performance," a complicated calculation by which achievement is measured against theoretically possible performance. First and second: two 1.5-liter German-made Porsches...
...certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having fun" and "Scurvy, disease of sailors." The point of going to so much trouble is also, as even the scurviest sailor will suspect, to be found in the index, under the heading: "Husband...
FOOD PRICES are at their lowest in five years. On the Government's price index, the average cost of food in January tumbled 6% below the 1952 peak, with meat 22% cheaper...