Word: ib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floods destroyed much of last year's rice and jute crops. The death toll could go much higher if this year's crops should also be ruined. Inflation is virtually out of control; rice has more than doubled in price in the past year (from 200 per Ib. to 500). Law-and-order is also a serious problem. Since independence, there have been at least 6,000 political murders...
...display covers the times and lives of the two Americans from the birth of Franklin in 1706 until Jefferson's death on July 4, 1826-precisely 50 years after he signed the Declaration of Independence. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, documents and artifacts, including a hulking 3,500-Ib. stuffed buffalo-a symbol of the vast, unmapped Western territory that Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase after becoming President. Following trips to Warsaw and London, the show, which is being underwritten by IBM, will come to the U.S. in March...
...large price rises, rather than waiting for complaints as it usually does. Last week Saxbe disclosed that trustbusters are looking for evidence that price fixing is inflating the cost of such foods as beef, milk, bread and especially sugar, which in the past year has rocketed from 140 per Ib. wholesale to a record 460. The Council on Wage and Price Stability also will hold hearings to determine whether sugar refiners are making undue profits. Justice teams are further sifting through data about oil-company price hikes and casting a suspicious eye at price rises in such industries as steel...
...market price of petroleum by the cartel of oil-possessing nations. Higher oil prices meant added costs for the farmer: pesticides, herbicides and nitrogen-based fertilizers are derived from petroleum, while the manufacture of all fertilizer requires much energy. The world price of nitrogen fertilizer jumped from 11? per Ib...
...nostalgia, a reminder of times past when a family could afford to eat without thinking about the price. The customers were smiling in Atlanta, something few Americans have done in grocery stores for years. But with the sale over, reality - and inflation - returned. Chicken was going for 54? per Ib., five pounds of flour for 98?, and a six-pack of soda...