Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ford, whose philosophy is based on low prices and big volume, took his time shopping for his 50,000 tons. For weeks he dangled the bait until big time steelmen forgot that the price of 1,000,000 tons was at stake, enough to keep U. S. continuous rolling mills busy for more than a month, while 50,000 tons add up to a couple of days' work.* By October 1, steelmen were in a competitive lather...
...week later, when it was all over, Big & Little Steel were yoked to a new price structure at $50.51 instead of $56.27 a ton and they had enough orders for five months of operations at 50% of capacity. Their week of war had sold not just 1,000,000 tons to feed Detroit from October through Christmas, but something like 2,000,000 tons-enough to tide auto production over until the 1939 model year was nearly over. Result: the 1939 model cars were about $25 cheaper than the 1938, and $10 of that...
...October,-price cutting spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what...
...happened that the cotton mills had an excellent excuse for slackening their pace-a shortage of cotton. It was a purely man-made shortage, for the U. S. Government holds under loan 11,400,000 bales, enough to keep the U. S. in shirts and skirts, sheets and towels, for nearly two years...
...calls it a happy marriage. Modern readers will likely be more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her declaration that "One writer is quite enough in a house." Nor can the reader so lightly dismiss as a weak-moment confession her confidential opinion that marriage is "extremely disagreeable...