Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personal income went up 8%, and corporation profits before taxes 22%. With the cost-of-living index holding steady, every extra dollar of dividends or take-home pay bought a full dollar's worth of goods...
Skillfully compounded in its 2,139 pages are all the officially approved drugs listed in the U.S., British and International Pharmacopoeias, plus the permissible "nonofficial" remedies. It takes 80 pages of index merely to list the items from acacia (the pillroller's gummy old standby) to zygadenus (a plant poisonous to grazing animals...
...wave of good news pushed Southern Railway and Delaware and Hudson to new highs for the year. At week's end, the Dow-Jones railroad index rose to 167.83, highest point since...
Teele said the additional funds will be used largely for adjusting faculty salaries which "have lagged seriously behind the cost of living. While the Consumer Price Index has increased 91 percent since 1940," he said, "the salaries of professors have increased only 46 percent; those of associate professors, 44 percent; and those of assistant professors, 60 percent...
July 4, 1955 (Republican Administration. Consumer price index, 192.3): "After a considerable shift in domestic economic policy, the U.S. is more prosperous than ever before...