Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of living would soar anywhere from 5% to 8% in the next year. Last week Johnston himself took a step toward making his gloomy warning come true: he approved a Wage Stabilization Board's decision that all wages may now be tied to the cost-of-living index...
This device, designed to "determine the coefficient of friction which is an index of relative slipperiness," was delivered to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management survey team. The team surveyed. After weeks came a report. Freely translated from the Pentagonese, it said: the floors aren't too slippery at all; people around here are just too careless...
...failed to bring the expected perk-up in sales. In many lines, the consumer was momentarily king and could still drive bargains-well below list prices-for refrigerators, washing machines, TV sets and even some makes of new cars. For the ninth consecutive week, the Government's index of wholesale prices had dropped, mainly because of shakeouts in commodities. Wool had skidded to $2.15 a lb. compared to $3.80 five months ago. Cotton men, who screamed early this year that if cotton were frozen at 45? a lb., their profits would disappear, were now glad to sell...
...that the backs of their second joints stayed in contact. Then he put a coin between his thumbs. "This is the way Britain gives assistance," he said as he parted the thumbs, allowing the coin to drop easily. Then, just as easily, he dropped the coin from between his index fingertips; that, he explained, represented the ready generosity of the U.S. Then, still holding his fingers in the same position, Tito pressed the coin between his third fingers. He tried but could not draw them apart; the coin could not be budged. Sinclair, when he, too, tried the trick, found...
...higher than the same time last year, when war-scare buying was at a peak. Retail food prices were still edging up. This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices went up ½ of 1 % in the last half of June, pushing the food-price index 12% above the pre-Korean level. But there were surpluses-and probably lower prices-ahead. Farm planting, said the Agriculture Department, is at the highest level since 1933. In the stockyards, even the price of beef eased off a bit, as a heavy flow of cattle came to market...