Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work. But the servant is pleasant to look at-for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price...
Philadelphia Seat. A seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where relatively little business is negotiated, sold last week for a record price...
...price of the booklet will remain at $.50. If this impression is exhausted by spring the editors will probably revise the booklet in the spring for distribution to the class...
...below normal. This year's crop, not yet delivered, is only about 15,000 tons. Spice traders (pepper is the most important of their 108 spices), trading in spot pepper and futures, are short when the time of delivery arrives. They must get pepper at any price to fulfill contracts. They must draw from the surplus Alleppy and Tellicherry in India and in England, and pay dearly. Prices rise. From a normal price of 12?-a pound, pepper quotations have risen to 43?. Brokers prophesied last week that a high of 40? would be touched before the December crop...
Seat. A New York Stock Exchange seat was sold last week for $415,000. The previous high price was $398,000, negotiated last May. The Exchange has 1,100 members. No indications exist that the membership will be increased and thus depreciate the value of seats...