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Word: per (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...per-week elimination of bread, cereals, pies, or any combination of these three to save wheat will be put to University students in the new "sample reaction" poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Slates Revised Food Economy Poll | 11/25/1947 | See Source »

...wool, from 34? to 25.5? per lb. ¶ Tungsten ore, from 50? to 38? per lb. ¶ Chinaware, from 45% to 25% of the value of the decorated items; from 40% to 25% on undecorated ware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Great Dream | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...also gave as good or better than it got. Import rates now imposed by the U.S. were nailed to present levels on 20% of the nation's dutiable imports; they were cut from 25% to 50% on the rest. Some reduced duties: ¶ Whiskey, from $2.50 to $1.50 per proof gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Great Dream | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

President & Señora Perón helped usher in spring by attending a regatta at Tigre, where photogenic Evita shocked the decorous by appearing in white slacks and a new hairdo, with hair slicked back into a knot at the nape of the neck and parted on the left instead of in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Piropo Time | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...though investors had bought Texas Eastern shares at 67 times the price promoters had paid for their shares, they bought no pig in a poke. With contracts already signed to buy gas at an average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at an average price of 26.7?, Texas Eastern's backers confidently expect to gross $30 to $40 million a year. If they do, they expect that more than half will be operating profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Make a Buck | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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