Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homeward-bound Wall Streeter stopped at Manhattan's Washington Market one afternoon last week to pick up an order of filet mignon. When he found it was $2.25 a pound, up from $1.90 the week before, he canceled the order. Said he valiantly: "I'll eat money. It's cheaper...
...doesn't yell, holler, scream, shout; get angry, mad, furious; fly off the handle; pound the desk; fuss; fly in a rage; bite your head...
...global scramble for strategic materials, Russia last week grabbed with both hands. In Singapore, the Soviets bought rubber by the shipload, sent prices bouncing up almost 6?a pound in one day to 52.5? a pound. As a result, rubber also rocketed in New York-to 54.3? a pound, a 22-year record. New York's Commodity Exchange governors, fearing that the futures market was soaring out of control (a speculator who put up $800 to buy rubber futures in January could have had a $7,500 profit last week), ordered speculative futures margins doubled; buyers...
Some of the rises could be blamed on scare buyers. Last week, hoarding housewives still roamed the nation's stores and markets, snatching up prizes. In Boston, sirloin steak went to $2 a pound. In Washington, a psychology-minded grocer put a sign out front: "Special: 5 Pounds Sugar, 98 cents"-just twice the price at the store across the street. By closing time, clamoring customers had bought 1,000 Ibs. In Allegan, Mich., a man asked to exchange a bag of badly caked sugar, confessed he had 250 pounds more just like it that he had hoarded from...
...Vietminh has grown hungry since the French occupied the rice fields of the Red River Delta a year ago. Rice in the mountains fetches 50 piastres ($2.50) a pound, and the black-market price of the Viet Nam piastre has gone up from 12 to 30 Vietminh piastres. I know Ho has sent some of his troops into China for short stays, so they could eat better...