Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since July...
...boom in business had an obvious effect on prices. Item: despite prospects of a 99 million pig crop this year, third highest in U.S. history, retail pork prices last month edged up 9.8%. They helped push the cost of living index up .8%, its sharpest advance in 22 months...
...Haven's Hotel Taft was crowded with politicians, all wide awake. Leading Candidate John Davis Lodge, of the Boston Lodges,* paused amid the swirling delegates and nibbled on the nail of his index finger. "This," grinned Lodge, "is like trying to pin down a pup tent in a windstorm." A fife, drum and bugle corps blew for Lodge outside the hotel, and delegates found new lyrics to When Johny Comes Marching...
From New England, Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. Inc.'s William R. Murray reported: "Our industrial production index for March showed an increase of more than twice that of the nation . . . Demand for all goods is high, resulting in a good rate of production and employment...
...this optimism was confirmed last week by the still growing boom. In May, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production soared to 193, within a whisper of 1948's postwar high of 195. Said FRB: production would probably set a new record in June...