Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business was moving gradually ahead, so were prices. The Consumer Price Index inched up again last month for the 21st time in 23 months, stood at 123.9% of the 1947-49 average. While rising costs of transportation, medical services and food brought the index to a record high, food prices are now declining, which will show up in the index next month. The drop in food prices is expected to offset any rises that may come from fall-clothing and postage increases, thus keep the cost of living relatively stable in the months to come. Said Ewan Clague, commissioner...
...many years ago, almost every man who achieved the $20,000-a-year bracket-or even $15,000-could join a country club and enjoy it. Today, country club managers quote J. P. Morgan's dictum on yachts: He who asks how much it costs cannot afford it. Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain...
...intentionally violated" SEC rules by secretly sending telegrams to two Swiss banks in an effort to have the banks withhold their proxies. Only slightly taken aback, Phillips announced that he would appeal-to demand that Pennsy's directors be required to pay from their own pockets the cost of fighting his attempt to get on the board...
Flatfeet to the Floor. In Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons said reckless cops cost the city $15,000 in damage to patrol cars over a six-week period, suspended 35 patrolmen for unsafe driving...
...Said President Harold Churchill: "I'm happy to see the Big Three coming out with cars so long and so low that only Eskimos can get into them. From our market surveys we know this is the right time to get a good reaction with a small, low-cost car." Probable price of S.-P.'s entry: around $2,000. Date: November...