Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument of those who desire to dispose of the tradition, the figures of last year's Prom may shed light on the matter. Yesterday's editorial stated that the cost of a Prom is $3,000. Since 250 couples and 150 stages attended the dance last year if the price of tickets for couples and 150 stages attended the dance 1st year if the price of tickets for couples alone had been ten dollars instead of eight, there would have been no deficit. To attend a "Special Night" at a night club costs fifteen dollars or more which shows that...
Members of the University will be admitted at a reduced price of $.50 to the presentation of "A" Trip to Scarborough", a satiric comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which will be presented as the only Boston performance of the Jitney Players in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler at 8.15 o'clock tonight...
Subscription slips attached to the Life Blanks will not be accepted unless accompanied by $9.00 in check or cash. After March 31, the price will be raised...
Gasoline. Can a state legislature fix the price of gasoline? In 1927 the Tennessee legislature had declared gasoline a "public utility," subject to state price-fixing. The Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and the Texas Co. protested. The Supreme Court agreed with them. It ruled that gasoline is one of the "ordinary commodities of trade" and "not affected with public interest" and therefore not a public utility...
Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum was the only man who ever completely outwitted Bennett. The Herald had made fun of Barnum's famed Jenny Lind. Barnum retaliated by selling Bennett some land at a fabulous price and by keeping theatre advertising out of the Herald for two years...