Word: market
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Charles Ferranti, co-owner of the Harvard Barber Shop, said that a rise in barber prices differs from price rises of merchandise. "People complain more, and those do-it-yourself kits come on the market right away." He added that students, who compose about 60 per cent of his trade, don't complain as much, "because they come from places where the barbers charge even more...
Promissory Note. In Topeka, Kans., a grocery clerk at the C. & W. Market casually cashed a $20 check for a customer who signed it "U.R. Stuck," was when the check bounced...
Last fall Red China was dumping cement in Hong Kong at uneconomic prices in an effort to drive Japanese producers out of the market; today Red Chinese cement cannot be bought in Southeast Asia at any price. Indonesia is told that it will get its promised 200,000 tons of rice this year not from China but through Russia, and that it must pay $8.40 a ton more for it. Everywhere Chinese Communist commercial agents are turning away orders for products that require extensive hand labor...
...failure of the latest debt "rollover" attempt was a fresh sign of softness in the Government bond market-and of the size of Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson's task of refinancing $42 billion of Government securities falling due this year. At a time when most investors want to buy stocks, real estate or other things as a hedge against inflation, Anderson is finding the public increasingly uninterested in bonds. Furthermore, Wall Streeters thought he had made a mistake in trying to sell securities with one year as the shortest maturity. At a time when investors were trying...
...houses only could be sold like cars -with trade-ins made easy-the housing market would really boom. Last week Federal Housing Administration Chief Julian H. Zimmerman spelled out the details of a trade-in plan that is expected to become law this year, since it is in all three housing bills now before Congress...