Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local customs men and Mounties, currently engaged in trying to stop the growing traffic in cigarettes (23? a pack in Maine; 46? in N.B.). There was no chance that the government would act on Stuart's tariff-toppling recommendations. But in a week when the cost-of-living index passed 190 for the first time in Canadian history, he had dramatized the soaring prices of consumer goods as no other M.P. has yet managed...
Last week the newest monthly index showed a climb of 0.6%, its biggest jump in months. Rents and food were up; so was clothing...
With winter just around the corner, neither side offered much of a solution for the worst fuel shortage since 1947, for the inadequacies of transport, the scarcities of raw materials, a foreign trade balance $340 million in the red and a cost-of-living index rising weekly. Conservatism skirted the issues and harped on Labor's mistakes, confidently asserting, "Anything you can do, we can do better." Labor responded by screaming "warmonger" at every Tory plea for strength...
...Tied all wages to the cost-of-living index...
...production was climbing up again after its midsummer breathing spell, but not all the news was cheery. Items: ¶ The Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production rose to 220% of the 1935-39 average in September, compared with 218% in August and 213% in July, the year's low. Gross national product in the third quarter reached an annual rate of $328 billion, a new high, compared to $325,600,000,000 in the previous quarter. ¶ Corporate profits, squeezed by taxes and rising costs, dipped for the second quarter in a row. The annual rate dropped...