Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough coats and mumbling hysterically...
...clothing is higher in many places. Gas ranges and refrigerators are up sharply. The used-car market shows that customers will pay through the nose if they are choosy. Light cars dating from the early '40s are $200 to $350 above the former ceilings-at what had been black-market prices. But vintage models of the early '30s rust in the lots, and heavy cars of any age are at a heavy discount...
Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads, from fish to politics. Then last month the Convention decided that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then...
...department's curriculum is divided generally into five parts: Economic Theory, Economic History, Money and Finance, Market Organization and Control, and Labor Economics and Social Reform. The latter three are categorized as Applied Economics, and their designations are largely self-explanatory. Concentrators must specialize in one of the five to the extent of taking at least three half-courses and a special examination in that field, but their choice of study is not otherwise limited of prescribed except that they must take one course in Government and one in History. A divisional examination complements the special by testing the student...
...Market Organization and Control", includes courses in "The Corporation and its Regulation", "Industrial Organization and Control", "Consumption, Distribution, and Prices", and "The Economics of Agriculture...