Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housewives read the bad news in their store windows every day. A sirloin steak which cost 79? a pound in Denver last fall now sold for $1.15. In Atlanta, a $60 suit now cost $65. Across the nation, cigarettes were up 1?a pack...
...rift stopped there. At the conference table, Yugoslavia and five other Communist-dominated countries stood squarely behind Russia's Andrei Vishinsky when he took a high-handed line indicating that the Communists intended to keep Western nations off Europe's greatest waterway. This policy would cost the Yugoslavs and the. other Danube countries dearly. From the heights above Belgrade one could scan the Danube in vain for signs of the heavy traffic it had carried before...
...hold the cost of living down, -the government has subsidized milk, meat and wheat. Milk, for which the producers get 8? a quart, is sold to the public for 9?. Rents have been under strict control but are shortly due for some increase. Wages have also been held even; the government has set aside several wage increases proposed by labor-management boards...
...dream of a big, expensive-looking magazine for 330, 000. Circulation, which reached a high of 96,411 last January when Wallace announced his presidential candidacy, was down to 80,000 and would probably slide lower. The circulation campaign that helped bring in new readers has been dropped; it cost too much. Said Publisher Daniel Mebane: "We've been having a spring and summer slump which is somehow more than normal...
...Queen. If so, it would be another radical departure, as no U.S. superliners have ever made money over any length of time. A case in point is the 26,314-ton America, present queen of the U.S. commercial fleet. Built for U.S. Lines eight years ago at a cost of $17,586,478 (of which the Government paid one-third), the America was bought by the Government for $10,853,791 in 1942 for use as a troopship (the West Point), was reconverted at a cost of $6,883,424 and chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week...