Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When austerity-minded President Arturo Frondizi predicted last January that "a lowering of the standard of living is inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
Since January the Buenos Aires' cost-of-living index has soared from 1,610 to 2,665 (from a base of 100 in January 1943). Señ Ferrer finds bread up from 4? to 8? a kilo, eggs from 14? to 47? a dozen, vegetables and fruits trebled in price. Husband Vittorino, 38, no longer goes noontimes to a restaurant; instead, he takes a sandwich and a bottle of bouillon to work. He has even given up his cheap, locally made cigarettes. His paycheck is fixed at 5,200 pesos a month (around $60 on last week...
...feminizing disadvantages of the natural estrogen, Drs. Marmorston and Kuzma see no need to wait for this millennium. They feel much good can be done with the currently available estrogens (marketed under different names by a dozen U.S. drug companies). Even on prescription, the low-dosage tablets should not cost more than a nickel...
...much of a boom. Warned Manhattan's First National City Bank: "With the problems of recession behind them, businessmen will now need to be alert to the problems of prosperity-pressures on prices, temptation toward excesses of inventories or credit use, and the eroding of the efficiencies and cost reductions introduced during the recession...
Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...