Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that spending in January for private construction topped $2 billion, up 20% from 1954 levels. Although unemployment took its usual January climb (mostly because retailers laid off temporary Christmas help), the new jobless (500,000) were 35% below last year's January layoffs. The new Labor-Commerce unemployment index (100 equals 1947-49 average) showed that unemployment has dropped steadily from 140 last summer to 114 in January...
Students discouraged by their inability to find certain Widener index cards should try again in about two weeks, according to Susan M. Haskins, Head Cataloguer in the Library...
...index cards which were soaked by rain water last Friday are now dry, but most are being pressed and won't be back in place for about two weeks, Miss Haskins said. Water damaged the cards after overflowing from an air conditioner reservoir during last Friday night's storm...
...statistical survival, for the individual's native powers of adjustment are by no means enough for his personal safety, any more than are those of other creatures. The precipitate of our experience is far from absolute verity, and our exasperated resentment at all dissent is a sure index of our doubts. All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question, and in consequence to upset, existing convictions: that is precisely its purpose and its justification. He is. indeed, a ''subversive'' who disputes those precepts that I most treasure and seeks to persuade me to substitute...
...solid earnings and dividends were further backed by a still rising business level. The Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index rose one point, to 130, in December, and was probably up some more in January. Steel output, at 84% capacity, was the best in 14 months. With tension rising in the Far East, copper buyers scrambled to build their inventories. Last week producers jacked the price of copper by 3?, to 33? a lb., the first upward move in almost two years...