Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell himself reads the reports on all important cases and investigations, pencils notes in the margins, fires off brief memos typed on blue paper, e.g., "Please brief...
Highlights of the report, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: between mid-February and mid-March the U.S. consumer price index (1947-49 = 100).jumped 0.2% over the previous period, to an all-time high of 118.9. The increase, seventh consecutive one in as many months, brought living costs 3.7% over what they were a year ago-and the U.S. dollar down to 81% of what it was worth in 1947-49. An immediate effect of the rise: automatic (1? to 3? an hour) wage hikes for some 1,400,000 industrial workers whose earnings are tied...
...published sermons and books, such as Peace with God, contain false doctrines, sometimes false in se, at other times false by being incomplete. They fall within the scope of the Index." ¶ "Catholics should not tune in on Billy's radio and television programs. So well constructed are his sermons, so interwoven is true and false doctrine, so forceful and persuasive is his delivery, that even a fairly well instructed Catholic may be deceived...
Nearly one million railroad workers will be affected, as well as a couple of hundred thousand workers in the aircraft and electrical manufacturing industries. Their wage rates are geared partly by labor contracts to the government's index of living costs. The index has hit a new high for each of the last six months...
...Office of Admissions, however, has recently been making statistical studies which will, "when validated by experience," partly modify the category system, added the author. A series of prediction index charts has been constructed for each college sending large numbers of students to the Law School, based on correlation studies between the three variables, college grades, Test scores, and Law School marks. Toepfer stressed the importance of a "closer liaison with college deans and pre-law advisers" for opening a "storehouse of information," about each applicant...