Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickel cigar was back in Manhattan and the $1.99 shirt in Kansas City. A basket of groceries which cost a Des Moines housewife $4.19 a year ago could be bought last week for $3.29. The papers advertised sales in everything from bed sheets to mink coats...
Union members who had tied their wage increases to the cost of living, had seen their wages soar up-and would now see them dip a bit. In St. Louis, 25,000 employees of the International Shoe Co. faced such a wage cut. So did 380,000 at General Motors. Old A.F.L. Chieftain William Green hinted, in as unincriminating a way as he could, that maybe there wouldn't be so many workers asking for fourth-round increases...
Softening Spots. Further drops in the cost of living promised to ease the wage pressure still more. The average retail drop in the price of meat since last September's peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their fingers crossed on whether the drop would continue, but they thought that meat would be in "pretty good supply for the rest of the winter," thanks to the bumper corn crop...
...cities and convinced them that they could profitably boost their business by buying used bags from bakers, processing them into tea towels, and selling them through retailers. Bag dealers were soon buying bakers' used cotton bags for as much as 25? apiece, thus cutting the original cost to bakers to around 7?-well under paper prices...
...Quiet One (Film Documents; Mayer-Burstyn) is a shoestring documentary which ties up a big subject in a compact package. Produced as a 16-mm. film at a cost of $28,000, this gentle study of a childhood tragedy has stirred such enthusiasm among preview audiences and potential exhibitors that it has been blown up to standard 35-mm. size and will be distributed nationally...