Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most economic indexes were, unhappily, edging downward, the cost of living, just as unhappily, was still edging upward. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index went up 0.2% during February to a new inflation high of 122.5 (vindex of 100 in 1947-49). Sharpest rise in the recession month's inflation was the advance of 0.4% in food prices, caused mostly by fresh fruit and vegetable shortages after the harsh winter freeze in Florida and the Deep South. Food prices are not likely to head downward, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...average U.S. motorist who drives 10,000 miles in 1958 will spend $1,078, about $76 more than it cost him to operate in 1957, says an American Automobile Association survey. Annual depreciation, the driver's biggest budget item, will increase by $51 to $565, chiefly because of the higher cost of new cars. Insurance will go up $13.31 to $116.71, license and registration fees up $1.48 to $19.16, maintenance up .05? to .79?a mile, tires up .06? to .59? a mile. The only saving, says the AAA, will come in gas and oil. which in 1958 will...
...week U.S. buyers of the new tobacco crop found their hard-cash deals being squeezed by satellite countries. Americans buy at the official rate of 2.8 liras to the dollar. The Communists pay in barter deals at a rate of 14 to 15 liras to the dollar-covering the cost by boosting prices of their goods. Much of the Red-bought tobacco does not go to satellite citizens, but is eventually sold in the U.S. for dollars. Since U.S. companies have recently found a better, cheaper tobacco in Greece, they are not worried by Red competition in Turkey...
...High Cost of Loving (MGM) is a clever little watercooler farce with kitchenette complications. The hero (José Ferrer) and heroine (Gena Rowlands) are a nice young suburban couple. Two cars, no kids, both work-she in a gift shop ("It's For Them"), he in industry (purchasing department). One morning she happily announces that after nine years of trying they are finally going to have a baby. At work he prematurely passes the cigars and takes the joshing. ("Here's a man who has proved that anything can be done if you keep on trying," cracks...
...years, tidal waves of conquest have continued to sweep over the island's pebbled shores. Cyprus has been ruled by medieval Knights Templar, Venetians, Turks and British. By 1953, when Author Lawrence (Justine) Durrell (TIME, Aug. 26) arrived in Cyprus in search of a writer's low-cost retreat, the Greek Cypriots (four-fifths of the population) were scrawling their own historic handwriting on the village walls: "Enosis and only enosis" (union, i.e., with Greece...