Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...August 1939 the Federal Reserve Board index of production stood at 104, steel operations were around 60% of capacity; now the FRB index is in the 160s and steel plants operated last week at 97% of a capacity to which 2,000,000 tons have already been added this year...
...Just before war started, the Department of Labor's brand-new index of 28 basic commodities was 100, its cost of living index 100.6, average weekly factory wages $24.53. The commodity index last week hit a high of 152.7; latest figure on cost of living was 105.2, factory wages...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics index of 28 basic commodities reached 152.7, up 1.2 points in the four weeks since Congress got the bill. Retail prices were pulled along. Manhattan Shirt Co. raised white broadcloths from $2 to $2.25. A men's clothing chain (Howard) raised its one-price suit line from...
...weeks: This is the age of the index finger-of poking and prying. The baby sits up by himself, plucks a string, creeps, pulls himself to his feet against the railing of his pen. He can say "mama, dada," and one other word. At mealtime he holds his bottle...