Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel industry caught up with the last great materials shortage and began closing down marginal mills. Retail sales lagged; orders in the textile, appliance and shoe industries melted away like ice in the spring sun. The Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, which had reached a postwar high of 195 in November 1948, began to drop...