Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full time. Actually, this sounded worse than it was. January employment is always less than December's, when the Christmas trade is glowing; 351,000 more were in jobs than were working in January 1948. Wholesale food prices were also dropping sharply-the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since...
...index files contain cards of three different colors: red, white and green. Red is reserved for those who are absolutely reliable, i.e., active Communists. White tabs the tolerated elements: the great majority of workers and peasants. The green cards represent suspects...
...Hungarian census taken in late 1945 was unsatisfactory. It did not give enough information to serve the Communists as a record of the population's political reliability. On the basis of a new census completed Jan. 20, a card index for exclusive government use is now being set up in Communist Boss Rakosi's Central Registry offices...
...Rich." By last week, however, a good many Jamaicans had concluded that infallibility is a big word. Busta had promised more jobs, better prices, and increased incentives for farm production. Instead, while the cost-of-living index zoomed (up 300% since 1939), wages lagged. Last week some 150,000 Jamaicans (total population: 1,320,000) were unemployed, and many poor families had taken to living in old automobile bodies...
Five-Star Treatment. Whatever Hubert Humphrey still had to learn about becoming a Senator, there was not much for him still to learn about politicking. He briefed his new eight-man staff: every letter was to be answered, every request followed up, a card-index system established to show what action was taken. Minnesota correspondence was to get priority (in one week he got 2,000 letters, tops for any freshman). He had a list prepared of big Minnesota names, who were to get the five-star treatment...