Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cripps had agreed to transferability, although the amount of drawing rights that could be transferred was cut from 40% to 25%. Since this would cost Britain only $50 million a year at most, Cripps had won a victory in terms of cash. ECA and the Belgians were content in having established the principle that ECA was working toward multilateral trade, not bilateral budgeting and bartering...
...came along, the folks in Tulare, Calif, (pop. 12,000) never had much to shout about.* When Bob became Olympic decathlon champ at 17, they let off a roar heard all over the county, gave him a noisy welcome when he came home from London. Last week, at a cost of $40,000, Tulare played host to the 1949 A.A.U. decathlon meet just so townspeople could watch Bob defend his title...
...want to buy it on installments. We weathered one depression that caught us paying on two babies, washer, car,, sweeper and furniture. So I said no to the refrigerator salesman and bought a secondhand one for $125.. . . I had a funny feeling that the $299.95 refrigerator would cost $229.95 next fall...
...tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have an automatic toaster. 'They cost about $22, I guess,' she said. Her husband added: 'I could buy the damn thing tonight but I'm going to wait until the price goes down...
America's biggest bargain counter closed down last week; the War Assets Administration officially expired. For the $25.2 billion worth of surplus property (original cost) which WAA sold in a little over three years, it got $4.2 billion...