Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Machinist predicted that U.S. citizens would wear fewer political campaign buttons in 1948. Reason: the cost of manufacture is now 2? per button as compared...
...above all others, has made life all but impossible for independent Argentine newspapers and newsmen was made honorary president of the Argentine Press Syndicate last week. President Juan Domingo Perón accepted the honor with bland grace-and no wonder. Like their new head, members of the Peronista-minded syndicate believe that the press should be the tool of government, not an instrument of freedom...
...ostensible excuse for Perón's elevation to the fourth estate was his authorship of a series of newspaper articles setting forth his philosophy in confused prose. (Designed mainly for U.S. readers, the pieces impressed only a handful of U.S. editors.) Those who knew how Perón's rule works found a more convincing explanation. Last week the long established Argentine Federation of Newspapermen, which has refused to knuckle under to Perón, was meeting at Córdoba. By accepting membership in the rival syndicate, President Perón delivered a well understood...
...their abbey's heavy-beamed library, in which Parliament sat during the 17th Century's civil wars. A public (i.e., private) school for the past 25 years, St. Albans now takes in some 450 boys, nearly all sons of townsmen, at a modest tuition of ?15 ($60) per term...
...Flivver. Ford Motor Co., which had upped the price of its 1949 Ford by $85 to $125, last week ordered its dealers to figure their markups (25%) on the old prices (thus cutting their profit by an average $25-per-car). The grey market was already placing a far different price structure on the new Ford. On "used" car lots, new models were selling at $3,000 (the Detroit-delivered price ranges from...