Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey told Rieve that one index of the changes effected in the last 25 years was the fact that a foundation had been established to honor a labor leader, and that it would make a grant for a scholarly undertaking in a university...
...index was the stock market, reflecting the feeling of investors. The elections set off a surge of buying; the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to its highest level since 1929. Evidently, investors accepted the Republican vow to avoid creeping socialism and the Democratic pledge to prevent creeping unemployment. The middle of the road might be crowded, but it was comfortable...
...decision cost the U.S. military in Korea millions of dollars in unnecessary expense, and gave many South Koreans lush windfalls. In holding to 180 to $1, Rhee also broke his 1953 agreement with the U.S., by which the hwan is supposed to be pegged to the Pusan wholesale price index (which, at that time, would have given him a generous rate...
...scarcely surprising that the country's choice of governors in mid-term elections gives some indication of public sympathy for the Administration. Mid-term Congressional elections usually provide a similar indication. But during this century, curiously enough, the results of the gubernatorial races have proved a better index of a party's Presidential potential than the Congressional races. When Democrats have been successful in the mid-term races for the governorships, the Democratic Presidential candidate has never lost his election. Yet no Democrat except Harry Truman has ever been able to win in a nation which has elected mostly Republican...
...Morgan, Indiana's executive and legislature have adopted the policy that the best is the cheapest in the long run. For the present, the state's mental hospitals pride themselves not on how much money they can save but on how much they can spend -as an index to their efforts in treating, and perhaps curing, their patients so that they can be sent home and cease to be a charge to the state...