Word: costes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average wage-earner has plenty to be melancholy about at home. He struggles desperately with the inflated cost of living. At official prices an average belt for a man costs 800 yen, a hat 2,000 yen, a pair of shoes 1,500 yen, a suit 4,000 yen. The black-market prices are twice as high, but if a Japanese boycotts the black market he will need a year and a half to accumulate the tickets necessary to buy a suit on his ration card...
...year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded by a U.S. policy which was designed to keep Japan forever from waging another war. As it turned out, the cost was whopping, and it was paid by the U.S. taxpayer, who had to help support a destitute Japan...
When Argentina asked for more arms last summer, the Army's authority to sell at bargain prices had already expired. Thereupon Argentina made a deal to buy $7,000,000 worth of U.S.-made arms at current cost, but the dollar-shy Perón government has so far been able to pick up only $1,800,000 worth of the order. Since the Argentine deal was made, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay have all tried to buy in the U.S. market. Their orders have not been big enough for U.S. manufacturers to start...
...labor in his teeming new vineyard, Tyler has 15,000 volunteer laymen missionaries. They are plastering London's walls with 55,000 posters, passing out a million handbills, selling 100,000 copies of a picture magazine, peddling Bibles and showing slides in 25 London theaters. It will all cost about...
Less Men Means Higher Cost...