Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finger Writer. A ballpoint pen that fits over the index finger has been invented by R. L. Fuerst, a German refugee who fled from Hitler to Spain, then to China, then to the U.S. when the Communists started moving in. He will put it on sale in the spring, has already lined up orders for nearly 90,000. Price...
Washington's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its monthly bad news: the cost-of-living index was up another half-point to an alltime high in mid-December of 189.1 (100 equals the average 1935-39 level). It was the fourth increase in a row, boosting the year-end level to a full ten points over December 1950. Main reasons this time: costlier fruits and vegetables, cigarettes, medical care and haircuts...
Department stores have already felt the overall slackening of business. Sales last week were 4% under the same period last year, when there was still some Korean war scare buying. The wholesale price index was 3% under a year ago, and just about at the low point for the last twelve months. The drop has already been reflected in retail price cuts in textiles, leather goods and furniture. By spring, other retail prices, which normally lag several months behind, may be down...
...with Stalin's help. He was studying mechanical engineering and bossing the Communist cell in Moscow's High Technological School when Stalin spotted him in the 1920s and whisked him off to be his personal secretary and snooper. He became known as Stalin's walking card-index file...
...Ottawa, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported that November's cost-of-living index was down one-tenth of a point to 191.1-the first drop since December 1949. Ottawa economists hoped that the inflationary spiral had been arrested, thus vindicating their program of strong credit controls and their dogged rejection of Tory and CCF demands for price ceilings...