Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counters - at $1-&-up a pound. Lard and other meat by-products edged up toward 70? a pound. Dazed by the sight of so many rare items, the people went on a two-day buying spree-a mood reflected by a six-point jump in the Dow-Jones industrial index.* Then they hesitated...
...price, pegged to the U.S. cost-of-living index, rose from 3.675? a lb. in January to about 4.38? a lb. in July, might go higher by year...
...Government's cost-of-living index is now 125.5 (against the prewar norm of 100). With the upcoming price boosts, Governm.ent experts expect it to hit 130 before long. Industries where pay has been boosted have not yet knocked on Gordon's door for price boosts. But he feels that they will come...
...Canada halt the index...
...living costs.) If she does, she would be doing a great deal better than the U.S. But with Canada's economy geared as closely as it is to the U.S., chances were that the Canadian price line would take plenty of holding-if the U.S. index continued to rise...