Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotton. "14,915,000 bales . . . 14,478,000 last year. . . . For the larger crop, producers received a lower price per pound...
...course this does not change in the least the price of meals, 10 for $7.50; but it does give a student much greater liberty as to where he may eat at, in other Houses, on the square, or in Boston...
...ground floor flat at No. 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, where the Tiger worked and died, or the tiny, one-story stone house with a partly thatched roof in the Vendee, where he worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices are not too dear. Of his Vendee landlady Clémenceau said, not long before he died, with typical Tigeresque cynicism: "She is a royalist countess. She did nothing with this place before I came. It was nothing to her. So I got it on a lease for my lifetime...
...presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...
...last week, pausing in Manhattan en route to Chicago, Sir Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...