Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the new index is less sensitive to minor price fluctuations, it will probably provide unions with less of an argument for wage increases. Already C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has warned that the autoworkers will not accept an automatic changeover to the new index...
When General Motors pegged its wages to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index, it set a pattern for thousands of other union contracts. As the index rose, the unions got automatic pay increases. Last week it appeared that this pattern might soon change. In the hope of improving the index's accuracy, BLS announced a radical change in the way it is compiled. To reflect changed standards of living, BLS will add 75 new items (including candy, ice cream, baby foods, used cars). It will also check prices H twelve additional cities, raising tne total...
Dungeons & Boycotts. "The interests of truth are dependent upon freedom of thought . . . It is, in fact, good for truth to have to struggle with error . . . The conscientious expression of ideas must not be dealt with by a dungeon, a boycott or an index, nor by arbitrary governmental action, character assassination or the application of unjust economic or social pressures...
Between interrogation sessions, Stockwell found time to write four books in his cell. Two of them-a volume of religious poetry and one of devotional talks-he memorized, down to an index for each. Two others, a diary and a study of the Gospel of St. John, he wrote in fine handwriting on the margins of a poetry anthology which the Communists allowed him to keep. He also composed and memorized some 70 limericks. Sample...
...steel strike, said the Commerce Department, output of goods and services hit an annual rate of $343 billion in the third quarter, a new high and up $14 billion from last year's total. There were also signs that production costs were leveling off. The cost-of-living index, though up slightly in October, had dropped enough in the past three months to require 1,000,000 workers in auto, aviation and other industries to accept a wage cut of 1? an hour under the terms of their contracts. Many prices were stable enough so that Price Boss Tighe...