Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retail price average, which has been creeping up ever since February, finally fell during the four weeks between mid-August and mid-September-but not so much that a housewife could notice it. The Government's retail price index (in which 100 represents the price average between 1935 and 1939) dropped three-tenths of a percentage point-from...
...down elevator with cotton. A year ago, hide prices were almost twice those today. Rubber, which at the top of its post-Korea bounce sold for 80? a pound, was down to 27?. Lead was 4? a pound cheaper than a year ago, and zinc 6? less. The BLS index of all commodities, which had jumped a maximum of 16% after Korea, had lost nearly five percent of the gain and, with the near-record 1952 farm crops coming in, many commodities were expected to fall still more. Since retail prices rise & fall with commodity prices, the drop in commodity...
...cutting employees into a share of the company also looked good last week to Indiana's Magnesium Co. of America. To pay off a retroactive pay raise in its new union contract, Magnesium will distribute $100 company bonds pegged to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' price index. The bonds, which will also be sold to employees, will be revalued twice a year, in line with the cost of living. They can rise as high as $150, but cannot dip below the purchase price. Moreover, the bonds will draw 4½% interest on the adjusted values. The company feels...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the country's inflation is still spiralling. The consumer price index for August was a record 191.1, topping the previous high of 190.8 in July. Using 100 as a base, these indices compare present prices with those in the years 1935-39. The September figures will not be ready until about the twentieth of this month...
...classroom, hour, and day with the requirements of each course and section "a geographical jig-saw puzzle." He starts with a few perennially large classes that are traditionally located in Sanders Theatre or the New Lecture Hall. Then he and his assistant, Mrs. Barre, begin filling out a cross-index chart developed by her husband...