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Word: lickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Bottom? | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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