Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankee Point (by Gladys Hurlbut; produced by Edward Choate & Marie Louise Elkins) pecks at a dozen aspects of the war without getting its teeth in any of them. Playwright Hurlbut started with a card index instead of an idea. Her little community on the New England coast had to find room for a teen-age war bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear...
Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale prices crossed 100, indicating that the U.S. price level is back to its 1926 level. But not even Washington could claim to have planned it that way. All during the '30s when the Government was trying to push prices up via the Dr. George F. Warren sponsored commodity "rubber" dollar, and other devices, they stubbornly refused to go up to the 1926 goal. Now, when the Government is trying to hold prices down, they went up all too readily...
Nobody likes the subsidies, but more might come. Farmers feel the money is going to the wrong group, the distributors. The distributors want free prices. But OPA sweats at the thought of raising fluid milk prices and upsetting the cost-of-living index. The Department of Agriculture looks appalled when talk veers to reducing the wholesale prices of fluid milk. Finding a way out is Economizer Byrnes's task...
Sarah Bernhardt was brought up in the salon of her mother, Julie Van Hard, who was maintained by a succession of lovers. When Mother Van Hard decided to be rid of her homely, cranky daughter who was an annual index to her mother's age, the Due de Morny, the lover of the hour, suggested that Sarah go on the stage. Her debut was unsensational, but de Moray's influence kept Sarah in theatrical circulation...
...factory payroll index went up from 103 to 220 and average hourly earnings zoomed...