Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm situation, Benson bluntly admitted, certainly is not all Cadillacs and caviar. Since February 1951, the prices farmers get have dropped 64 points (from 313 to 249) on the Agriculture Department's index. Prices that farmers pay for goods they buy (including livestock feed) did not begin dropping until May 1952, and have dropped only 13 points. Most of the decline in farm prices occurred before the Eisenhower Administration took office, Benson said, but the farmer is still in the cost-price squeeze...
Those who did follow him found that Pierre Larousse was no one to hide his own opinions. He criticized the Roman Catholic Church (which promptly put his work on the Index), denounced the Emperor Napoleon III ("France . . . owes him an epitaph that could only be this: Napoleon the Last!"), refused to admit that General Bonaparte had ever become an emperor at all. As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse...
President Truman did none of these. At that time Harry Truman's popularity index in the Gallup poll was beginning to decline. The 1946 congressional elections were less than a year away. The Republicans were preparing to attack, and the left wing of Harry Truman's own party was doubtful about him. If Truman had withdrawn the White appointment, howls would have risen from the right and left. Whatever his motive, the President signed White's commission. When he quit. Truman and Treasury Secretary Snyder wrote him letters of praise that laid it on thick enough...
...seventh month in a row, the U.S. cost of living crept upward, but the total February-to-September rise was less than 2%. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its index (1947-1949 = 100) reached 115.2 in mid-September. It stood at 113.4 m February, 115 in August. Between August and September food prices dropped a little, but the decline was more than offset by increased costs for clothing, housing, recreation, medical care, services...
...Pildáin y Zapiáin, Bishop of the Canary Islands, who attacked the philosopher as an "enemy of the religious faith common to all Spaniards." It also quoted a 1942 decree in which the then Bishop of Salamanca listed the books of Unamuno that were on the Index. In a sudden panic, the university changed the name of the Unamuno house, which was to be opened as a museum, to the Casa Rectoral. It canceled plans to visit Unamuno's grave, rescinded invitations to his relatives, barred the mention of his name in the program. Then university...