Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...
...confused with the pneumonia serums now given to help victims of pneumonia recover. The cost of these serums and of preliminary tests necessary to determine which of 32 types of pneumonia a patient may have, is comparatively high, so that as yet only the rich can afford them, or the very poor, to whom several States this winter have supplied serum free...
...avowed purpose of the new crop control bill is to (1 guarantee an abundance of food, 2 bring the farmers completely under the domination of the Department of Agriculture, 3 keep farm prices up and stable, 4 guarantee the farmer his cost of production, 5 win votes for the Democratic party in the 1938 Congressional election...
...president of Commonwealth & Southern, big utility holding company, is willing to change the method of figuring power rates to conform with the President's insistence that utilities property valuations should be based on (1 cost of production, 2 cost of reproduction, 3 what was prudently and honestly invested, 4 estimates of tax experts, 5 the cost-plus plan...
...Deal, clouded with a great deal of confusion. For a long period in the early days of the Administration, it was reiterated that the President's purpose was to raise prices. Indeed this was so constanty repeated, that one had the feeling that if only automobiles, for example, cost 20 percent more than they did, everything would be right with the world...