Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (8 vols. Index to come)-Roy P. Basler, Editor...
...Brownell's head. Eisenhower headquarters had an elaborate card index of all the delegates. Brownell never used it. He says: "Why write it down on cards? When you need the information, there isn't time to go look it up on a card...
Nevertheless, businessmen had some worries for the moment. With wage ceilings off, they faced the immediate prospect of wage boosts at a time when price controls had been lifted on only 64% of the items which make up the Government's cost-of-living index. Pending before WSB had been 9,200 requests for boosts for nearly 1,000,000 workers. Automatically the increases would now go into effect...
Back for More. Agudelo's team, like six others in different parts of Colombia, had worked around the district, giving first inoculations in one place, returning a month and two months later to give the children their second and third shots. One index to the success of Colombia's campaign is that nearly all the children take the second shot, which is usually enough to confer immunity, and more than two-thirds get the third for extra insurance...
...Another index is in the disease rates. Whooping cough has been reduced by 90% to 95% in cities where the program was started two years ago, and diphtheria has been cut by 65% to 70%. Nobody knows how many children's lives have been or can be saved, because Colombia's vital statistics are too sketchy. But where something like one-sixth of all children have been dying before the age of five, there is plenty of room for lifesaving...