Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina's farmers won an important, if limited, victory. For months they had complained because the Perón government paid them just $1.35 a bushel for their wheat and sold it abroad for as much as $5.75 (TIME, Sept. 29), keeping the difference to pay for the "fiveyear plan." Last month, when they threshed their wheat, they held back as much as they could. Last week, with the crop trickling slowly to the docks, the dollar-minded Argentine government weakened, agreed to pay farmers 24? more a bushel, plus a further 24? a bushel if they would deliver...
...some 4,500 U.S. psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...
...think the food at Harvard is good, in Eliot House where I live if not always at the Union. I have never found much to gripe at considering we pay only $11.50 per week board. In fact, I have always secretly thought that Harvard did pretty well to feed us for that in the face of high prices...
...roast beef that was tender and tasty, milk in individual paper bottles, and choice of dessert, including crackers and fancy cheese. This, I learned, is the usual quality of the fare of Yale men who even see an occasional lamb chop. The amazing thing is they pay only $10 per week for this delicious repast...
...Communist party opposed to any U. S.-dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation to the bursting point. Schuman favors a general wage increase of $32 per month. Unless this much needed salary boost can be instituted without the evil of correspondingly higher prices, the government will come close to accomplishing the Communists' purpose...