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...short of new labor because the freeze would prevent them from raising wages to attract workers from declining or stagnant industries. Oil-using industries, facing rising prices abroad, would have to pay more for oil. Are they to go broke? Or again, suppose there is a poor world harvest, so that at current prices there is an excess demand for grain. How is this grain to be allocated if not by price? Another administrative machinery...
...want something a little more formal, consider Ferdinand's, the Blue Parrot, the Harvest, or the Hyatt...
...life." He added that he was particularly impressed with the progress in Phnom Penh. "The last time I visited Cambodia it was empty--now there are 200,000 people over there. Short warned, however, that rapidly dwindling supplies of grain may hurt the country from April until the annual harvest next December...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...example, that an Iowa farmer expects to harvest 50,000 bu. of corn in six months' time. By checking with his broker, he finds that the six-month future price of corn is $2.75 per bu. The farmer calculates that $2.75 per bu. for his crop would be a fair price, so he guarantees that he will get it by "hedging," or agreeing in advance to sell a contract for 50,000 bu. at that price in the futures market. This protects him against a drop in grain prices...