Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger the crop, the bigger would be the Government subsidy. In the great harvest, some estimates were that the farm price support program would cost the taxpayer $1.5 billion. As for high prices, as far as anyone could see now, the consumer would have to go on paying them...
Those inflationary pressures had sent the cost of living to a new high, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week. By mid-July (latest recorded figures), the consumers' price index was up 9.7% over last year, up 76.2% over 1939. Food prices were up 12.3% over last year, up 131.9% over...
...kings worth what they cost? Pastrycook Alfred Bell, 48, thinks so. Last week Alfred stood looking through the grubby show window of an empty little shop in the main road of Bedhampton, a Hampshire village. He smiled broadly as he pictured the cookies and cakes and pies he would bake to fill it. "It's all the King's doing," he cried. "God bless the King!" After the first World War, in which he served as an R.A.F. observer, Alfred had opened up his own pastry shop in London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined...
...Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize of about $3,500 (second prize: about $2,000). Said 49-year-old Champion Schenk consolingly: "There's a realshooter, that Jimmy. I'd shoot with him any time...
...pink marble palace in Memphis). Now a white-haired 67, Clarence Saunders is sure that he has hit the jackpot again. Keedoozle's lavor-saving, he says, will enable hin. to make 7½% on his turnover without adding more than a 3? markup to the cost of any goods. Says Saunders, who will sell Keedoozle franchises in other cities: "It can't miss. It's the biggest thing I've ever...