Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity, was turning out far more steel than in any peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
...executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...
...major commodities, only heavy metals went up. Even there the trend was mixed. By week's end, the Dow-Jones Commodity futures index was down 2.02 points to 117.56, about the same level as in November just before commodity futures joined the general price rise as OPA controls went off. It would take time for the lowered commodity prices to affect most retail prices. But many a retailer was hastening to clear his shelves of high-priced goods...
When Twentieth Century Fox decided to put out a technicolor period piece about the trials of a working girl in Boston in the Seventies, they apparently thumbed through the Joe Miller index and looked up all the standard japes about the Hub city. Into this essentially fine musical comedy idea they threw Betty Grable and Dick Haymes and proceeded to develop that peculiar mixture of maudlin sentiment and half-hearted satire that passes for musical comedy on the screen. The result, which was supposed to send Bostonians hustling to their desks to write indignant letters to the local papers...
...held out for high returns. The holdouts were one of the two big reasons (the other: shortages of materials, to which the holdouts contributed) why the U.S. fell so far short of maximum production. With some 4,000,000 more at work than ever before, the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production never got above 185, falling far short of the peak war rate. In short, though the U.S. did pour out the greatest flood of products in peacetime history, it took far more than a proportionate increase of workers...