Word: costly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Owiing to the increased cost of publication of books, the University Press will be compelled to advance the prices of many works next week. Some of the well-knows books of recent years that well be affected are: Professor T. N. Carver's "Essays on Social Justice," from $2.00 to $2.25; Professor C. H. Haskins' "Norman Institutions," from $2.75 to $3; Professor G. L. Kittredge's "Chaucer and His Poetry," from $1.25 to $1.45; Elihu root's "The U. S. and the War, etc," from $2.50 to $3; Oswald Siren's "Giotto and Some of His Followers," from...
High wage is the herald of high price. If an employer should suddenly put price down, it would be very difficult to reduce wage. But he cannot reduce price--he keeps it high to protect himself against increased cost of materials and sudden labor demands...
...fault for the high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
...great mass of laborers are outraged at the price of shoes, of clothes and food. They are impatient because of the high cost of living," said Professor Ripley in an interview yesterday. "It is this which causes their unrest...
...memorial which was planned would have cost in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars, according to estimates by the contractors, and this sum would not only have been a great strain on our class, but would also have subtracted a large amount from the many demands for funds which are now being made...