Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of living hit an alltime high in mid-June. On the basis of the new BLS index, it reached 114.5 of the 1947-49 average (.2% more than the previous high recorded last August*), chiefly because of a 1.4 increase in food prices. For 100,000 workers in aircraft and glass plants, the March to June rise means a wage boost of i? to 2? an hour...
...puppet, and even for the first time spoke of the U.S. as a democratic nation. Rhee's actions, said Peking in a July 4 broadcast, constitute "an insult to the spirit of independence and democracy of the American people and their ancestor, Washington." If these nosegays are any index, the Reds are as anxious for a truce as ever - perhaps more...
...reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship...
...were plenty of figures to back up Washington's optimism. In May, the Commerce Department reported, department-store sales hit the highest level ever, except in the war-scare months of July 1950 and June 1951. Personal income was still rising, industrial production (242 on the Federal Reserve index) was within a hair of its peacetime high, and a record of $12.6 billion in new construction was started in 1953's first five months, up 6% from a year ago. The labor market reflected the boom conditions: in April, said the Labor Department, layoffs were at the rate...
...first effects of Reuther's new auto agreements were felt by International Harvester's President John L. McCaffrey, whose employees still have their wages tied to the old cost-of-living index. McCaffrey had the misfortune to announce a 2?-an-hour cost-of-living cut for his 75,000 employees just after the autoworkers got their raise. The Farm Equipment-United Electrical union warned that when it starts discussing contract changes with Harvester next fortnight, "we will definitely be talking about the automotive pattern." Answered McCaffrey, whose company has been hit by slipping farm income...