Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reflect that:-You cannot increase the consumption of a good by lowering its price (low price=:cheap atmosphere=low esteem...
...Realize that:-Most price pressure is brought to bear upon food (price pressure in cities = price depression on farms...
...hero's name was Flagg in the pattern drama for all such diversions (What Price Glory...
Then the fun began. By fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...
...first folio edition of Shakespeare, of which there is but one other copy in existence. This was bought by Mr. Widener for $20,000 not long after he graduated from Harvard, in 1907, and now has a value of at least $70,000. Although this is the price listed, it would be hard to procure one of the first folio editions even at that cost...