Word: indexes
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...fell in line with Ford. Then Reuther went back to G.M. and persuaded it to grant the pension increase. He had another gain, achieved just in the nick of time. The autoworkers cost-of-living increases (or decreases) were switched from the old to the new cost-of-living index. Last week, the new index, which comprises more items, edged a fraction lower, while the old index dropped 1.1%-enough to have caused a 2? hourly wage cut under the autoworkers' old contract...
...military production during World War II, and sparkplugged its huge, postwar expansion program. Production and raw-materials procurement flourished under his regime, and the tense, postwar labor situation was greatly eased when he sold the U.A.W. a five-year contract gearing hourly wages to the cost-of-living index...
...more flexible formula will gear pay to the Government's new cost-of-living index. Wages will rise a penny for every index increase of .6%, drop a penny for every decline of .68%, compared to a rise or fall of 1? for every 1.14 points in the old index...
Possessors of such diverse items as three different versions of the New York Times Index and numerous bibliographic of bibliographics, the reference librarians hardly know where to start when space limitations demand weeding. Thinking themselves safe in disposing of the Dictionary of Islam on adding the ten-volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, they were appalled when, within an hour, a long-haired scholar came to the desk inquiring after the dictionary. The problem of arranging the variegated collection has proven even thornier. In trying to place the reference works on history, language, and geography in a logical order, the staff could...
...Currency Committee, of which he is chairman. Actually, his position was not inconsistent. The day after the Korean war began in 1950 he had proposed an immediate price-wage-rent freeze. His proposal was snubbed; controls were not imposed for seven months. In those seven months the wholesale price index rose by 15%, the consumer's index by 6⅔%. These increases, Capehart argued, left no foundation for sound controls. He fought Truman's belated program every step...