Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Philadelphia researchers report that wounds treated with chlorophyll mend faster than those treated with penicillin or sulfa drugs. Further finding: a cut on the index finger heals faster than one on the pinky...
...more to live these days. The question is not whether the maids and janitors deserve a new wage hike, but whether they have the right to ask for one before their contract expires, setting precedent for such demands. Once successful, they can use every future government Cost-of-Living Index to prove they need a new boost in wages...
...million members of the United Auto Workers Union (C.I.O.) got on their escalator last week and rode up to another 1?-an-hour increase in pay. A new rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index called for an automatic increase which will add $20 million a year to the automobile industry's wage bill. On Oct. 15, the BLS index stood at a record-high 187.8 (the 1935-39 average is 100), an increase of .7% since Sept. 15. The automatic rise will add to the pressure for another round of wage increases...
Labor costs have gone up five percent so far this fall, Heaman said. In the Cost-of-Living Index issued by the government present food costs are tabulated at 210 as compared with last month's 208.1 an last year's 199.2. The index for November...
...either direction. The method of making these hand signals is very explicitly described in the Law. For example: "An intention to turn to he left shall be indicated by extending the arm horizontally to the left of and beyond the side of the vehicle and by moving the index finger to the left...