Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increases are now directly reflected in real wages because the Administration has been able to keep the consumer price index (base: 1947-49) looking like this...
...acknowledged trouble spots. He asked Congress to join him in a study of the growing problem of installment credit (up 25% in 1955). But he was far more concerned, obviously, with an index of farm prices (base: 1910-14) that goes like this...
...that time the Times shifted him from Washington to his present job in New York, where he assembles a daily news summary and index. Though he gave the subcommittee names of his Communist cell mates at the Daily Press in 1937-39-the list was not made public-Knowles said that he knew no Communists on the Times. Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings broke into Knowles's testimony to praise his work as a Washington reporter. Later, Hennings taxed Counsel J. G. Sourwine with not giving subcommittee members advance notice of witnesses, and questioned whether any "useful purpose...
...Samuel Weissman, 46, supervisor of indexers on the Times Index, a reference aid to its files. He denied present Communist Party membership. ¶ Matilda Landsman, 37, now a Linotype operator, who had worked as a stenographer in the news and Sunday departments and as secretary to Joseph Barnes, onetime editor of the defunct New York Star...
Management and employees are a little proud of the fact that G.M. was the first automaker to accept the labor-dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...