Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely pays for food on the black market. Besides, he was still paying off a $200 debt incurred when he had tried vainly to save the life of a typhoid-stricken...
...wraps became a strait jacket. The small British cars could not compete in the foreign market. If manufacturers wanted to sell abroad, they had to make bigger export models, an expensive process. So production remained small, prices high, and there was little standardization...
Bearing Up. The short interest on the New York Stock Exchange jumped 226,102 shares between May 15 and June 17, reaching 1,540,493 shares, biggest total since November 15, 1945. But the market continued to edge up. For the week, the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 1.60 points...
...reduce to twelve. But carmakers will probably need two years to retool for the new models. The new tax will help U.S. automakers also. Eventually, when they are able to export freely again to Britain, they will be in a much-better position to compete for the British home market...
Meeting Europe's coal shortage Professor Mason termed the most pressing difficulty. "England is now out of the coal export market," he explained, and the Ruhr Valley is operating at half the pre-war level. Poland, the third great source of Europe's solid fuel, is now shipping the greater part of its output East...