Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, the strange atmosphere of quiet wrapped up the Republicans' secret hopes for an unprecedented landslide; it held the Democrats' last hopes for upsetting the form charts. The quiet was, in fact, about the only unfathomed factor of the 1956 campaign; every other index pointed to Eisenhower's reelection, probably with more than 380 electoral votes...
...volume of mail that comes in to a magazine or a newspaper is no index of anything except that you happen to attract a lot of idiots, because most people that write letters to newspapers are fools...
...announced that it wants a 20% package boost in freight rates, will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval in mid-January. Price boosts in other industries pushed the cost of living in September up another .3% to an all-time record 117.1% on the Labor Departments 1947-49 index of consumer prices...
Part of the trouble is that production, already at a peak 144% of the 1947-49 index, is increasingly hard put to supply the insatiable demand for goods and services. On top of that, the enormous expansion programs for virtually every U.S. industry may stretch the economy even thinner next year. After pouring some $29 billion into new investment in 1955, U.S. business expanded at the rate of $36 billion in 1956's first half, about 25% faster than last year...
...prime reason is West Germany. On the index of industrial production (1950 equals 100) German factories are clipping along at an alltime record (206 in May) for a 100% increase in five years. Yet wages and prices have been so carefully controlled that there is little inflation; meanwhile, booming exports have piled up gold and foreign currency reserves of $3.8 billion v. $504 million five years...