Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of seed potatoes. But Lenino would see little of the profits. While I was in Moscow, the Soviet state was buying potatoes at $5.84 a ton and selling them at $220 in ration stores, at $1,240 in "commercial" (unrationed) ones. (In Russia, where even the black market is planned, sales taxes average...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...
Last week the festival opened without a star (Father Hartke had wanted Jimmy Stewart, who couldn't make it), but with much of the ceremony given a Hollywood premiere. The play itself, John McGiver's All Gaul Is Divided, was a comedy about G.I. black market operations in France, and perhaps not worth so much fuss. But stage & screen bigwigs by the dozens and critics by the score came to look things over. Paramount and Pathe newsreelmen took shots. This week NBC will telecast the play, plans to do the same for all seven plays...
...over exports of oil to Russia, but these were a negligible factor. The services are short of oil chiefly because the oil companies: 1) get a better price from motorists than from bulk sales to the Government, and 2) are in a competitive "brand name" fight for the U.S. market. To eke out its supply, the Navy plans to import an extra 3,400,000 bbl. from the Persian Gulf...
...Leandro, Calif, last week, housewives were exploring a new kind of super market. They entered through pale lemon-yellow portals, found themselves surrounded by soothing pastel-green walls and bright, indirectly lighted murals of leaves and ferns. On the lightweight aluminum carts awaiting them, a printed directory told where everything could be found. On the way out, they were pleasantly surprised to find plenty of checkers who kept things moving. They were also surprised to discover how much they had bought; the light carts held 2½ times as much as the ordinary basket...