Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial commodity index was going down long before the '29 crash. In the 1937 recession, the commodity index started down three months before other indexes declined...
Last week the Commerce Department's index of wholesale industrial prices (nonfarm, nonfood products) showed the amazing stability of current industrial prices. The new figure of 115.7 (1947-49 = 100) was the same as a month before and only 1.2 points above the year-ago level...
...greatest personal income of all time. A striking example came from the auto industry, where the average weekly pay of General Motors Corp. employees in the U.S. reached an alltime high of $103.79. Rising paychecks were not being offset by rising prices; the national cost-of-living index has not changed for four months. From their record income, consumers were spending more than ever before, spreading prosperity almost everywhere in the land. In Texas, where retail sales are running about 18% above last year, the University of Texas' Bureau of Business Research reported that retailers did as much business...
...from a feudal fiscal system, in which varying and discriminatory interest rates make it difficult for small businessmen to operate. The textile industry, which has seen many of its markets disappear behind the Iron Curtain, is in bad shape, last year slumped to 117 on the national production index (1938 = 100), compared to 180 for industry as a whole. Such big tax-supported state monopolies as Institute per la Ricostruzione Industriale (I.R.I.) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.) spread over Italy's economy like a ground fog, dampening the growth of private business initiative (TIME...
...know how much room that leaves between two passing cars?" The audience became silent and waited for the answer. "The width of your index finger," the traffic official concluded...