Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to each MAP country. Last week MAP planners combed through the notebooks and cut out $160 million worth of low-priority items to fit the $1 billion program authorized by Congress for the Atlantic Treaty nations...
...settle for a mark pegged anywhere between 20? and 24?. After fevered cabling to their capitals, the French and British suggested 27?. McCloy beat the British down to 24?. Then the French proposed two conditions: 1) ending German subsidies that made for export dumping below cost, 2) freezing the price of exported German coal at the pre-devaluation rate. If Germany insisted on raising the export price of coal, then, François-Poncet insisted, the price of inland coal in Germany must also be raised; this would make Germany's steel and other fabricated articles more expensive...
...Bundestag next day, Adenauer read the Allies' communique. He passed lightly over the 23.8? decision with the remark that it did not do justice to the "rightful interests of the German economy." He also passed over the anti-dumping clause and the freezing of the price of export coal. But when he came to inland coal, he was sure and stern: ". . . The price of coal would have to be increased 25% ... We will under no circumstances adopt this measure. I say this explicitly in the name of the federal government, so that any unrest in the German people will...
...dubbed the battle of the lira. Said Pesenti: "Unless the government revises its economic and financial policies radically and immediately, our dear country will plunge into the most frightful economic chaos . . ." Then Minister Pella played his trump cards. He announced 1) an immediate 10% reduction in the controlled price of bread, in answer to Communist alarm cries that as a result of the lira's slump prices would rise; and 2) the purchase in Washington of a little more than $100 million worth of gold (100 tons) to back the lira...
...installment plan system, of payment will help boost sales of the Radcliffe 1950 Yearbook, Under the new plan, Miss Evans stated, a girl may put one dollar down at the time of subscription, two dollars at payday, and the remainder at the time of delivery. Price of the Yearbook has been set at five dollars...