Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter ending in October, the Government's new cost-of-living index was up 0.1 point to 190.9 (October 1951: 187.4.) However, the "old" index (not adjusted to allow for such items as frozen foods and TV sets) was down 0.9. Result: a million aircraft and auto workers, with escalator-clause contracts tied to the old index, will take a 1?-an-hour...
...stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese had lost the index finger on his right hand in an accident. Noticing this, a detective suddenly remembered the Chicago Cubs' famed three-fingered pitcher, Mordecai Brown, and pinned on the new name: "Look who's in now-Three-Finger Brown...
Debtor to Creditor. The German comeback could be measured in Bonn's own statistics. In 1948 the index of German industrial production stood at 56 (1936: 100); today it is 159. German exports increased about seven times in the past four years, and 75% in 1951. From being the biggest debtor in the European Payments Union (TIME, July 21), Germany has become its largest creditor, with a cumulative credit in September of $450 million...
...production for at least five months. The big rise all around was reflected by the Commerce Department's report of a $74.8 billion backlog of unfilled orders for manufacturers of all types; that was $10.1 billion higher than a year ago. And the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production for September was the highest (225) since May of 1945-and still rising...
...brandy) at Lincoln's second inaugural. ¶The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a nine-volume key to the current Lincoln boom scheduled for publication next February, which will contain 99% of all known Lincoln material, sell for $115 (prepublication price: $95), and boast such items as an index to 200 Lincoln forgeries...