Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate floor tomorrow . . . I'm really going to tear you to pieces . . .' He kept badgering me." Finally, said Pearson, he asked McCarthy: "Joe, how is your income-tax case coming along? When are they going to put you in jail?" "He jumped up, put his thumb and index finger behind my nerves in the back of my cranium right here, and gouged me as hard as he could and said, 'You come out. We will settle this.'" Later, related Pearson: "I was about to pay the hat-check boy, when McCarthy came up . . . pinned my arms...
...drops of such spectacular leaders as wool, rubber and cotton, thanks to increased supplies and an end to scare buying, pushed the Dow-Jones spot commodity index almost back to where it was at the start of the Korean...
Behind the massive, grimy walls of the Toronto Stock Exchange last week, the quotations flashing across an .illuminated screen spelled out record news. The key index of 20 industrial securities jumped to a high of 347.55-well above the peak of 338.62 reached during last winter's bull market and by far the highest reading since the index was established...
...last January. Congress, in turn, when it wrote its control bill, permitted manufacturers and farmers to boost prices to make up for increased labor costs. In last week's decision, Johnston gave the upward spiral another shove. On the basis of the present consumer's price index, all workers may demand an immediate 2% boost...
...been in a summertime slump. Last week businessmen learned how deep the slump was. During the second quarter, the nation's production of goods & services hit a record annual rate of $325.6 billion (up 20% from a year before). But in July, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production dropped seven points, to 215, the first drop this year. Some of the drop was caused by vacations and floods. But much of it resulted from production cutbacks by makers of television sets, refrigerators, etc., who were waiting for dealers to clear their overstocked shelves...