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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prices climbed-and went on climbing. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave another altimeter reading: on June 15 its consumers' price index reached its highest point ever: 157.1% of the 1935-39 level. In a year, food costs in large cities had risen 31%, clothing was up 18%, house furnishings 17%. The national pattern was not uniform, but almost everywhere in the U.S. the postwar dollar was worth only about 50% of its prewar value in purchases of essential consumer goods...
...hopped over to the other side of the fence. In 1919 he became labor expert for U.S. Rubber Co., ten years later took over as the company's director of labor relations. As a onetime member of NRA, the National Defense Mediation Board, the old NWLB, he knows bureau procedure. His formula, which thus far has been unusually successful: moderation, cooperation, sit down and talk it over...
Frenchmen, preoccupied with day-to-day living, ignored the great philosophic questions to which their fathers contributed so much. Britain was even more obsessed with shortages; TIME'S London Bureau last week cabled: "Britain's net situation is as nearly hopeless as any undestroyed and undefeated nation's can be." The U.S., a powerhouse of farm and factory production, had reluctantly assumed the political leadership of the West. Its steps were uncertain, its destiny only dimly understood by its own restless people...
...since a June dispatch had relayed the uncomplimentary comment of a London daily on Eva Peron's proposed British visit. * Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia discreetly let it be known that it might be a nice idea for slight, 39-year-old Rafael Ordorica, head of the A.P. bureau, to leave. Last week A.P. Boss Kent Cooper called Ordorica home "for consultation," because, said he, the correspondent had been in Argentina for six years, and it was time they had a chat...
Although it was much bigger than a fleabite, Grace had a point. Since 1939, steel prices, including last week's jump, have increased about 37% as compared to a rise of more than 92% in the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of all wholesale commodity prices...