Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COSTLIER COLOR TV is in sight. Radio Corp. of America has boosted prices for three of its ten color sets by $45 to $50, will sell them in range from $645 to $745 v. previous $595 to $695. But lowest-priced RCA color TV will stay at $495 at least until summer, by which time company may hike all color prices to offset higher costs for labor, materials...
...East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape of Good Hope...
...show is a treat far costlier than its makers originally estimated; the rising cost of the laborious animating process pushed the price of the average half-hour to $60,000, more than that of some top-flight variety show's with expensive live performers. Mainly for this reason, UPA was placed in a strange position for a cartoon company that holds the best possible credentials from TV advertisers. It still lacks the one thing to make its new show complete: a sponsor...
...Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic. Perhaps the desert pipeline to the Mediterranean might be expanded. And new supertankers might make the long and costlier way around the Cape of Good Hope more practical (see BUSINESS...
...COSTLIER BEEF is in sight; choice grades soared in Chicago stockyards to $25.50 per cwt., highest since May 1955. With the 13 major feeding states reporting 10% fewer cattle on feed lots than a year ago and shipments down to a two-month low, stockyard prices climbed $2.50 in three days...