Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionable Palace Hotel, old China hands still danced under the whirling colored lights of the cocktail lounge. Three Nationalist soldiers, in rough padded uniforms, left silently when the headwaiter told them the price...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...balmy day last week, a Manhattan housewife shopped for her summer clothes. In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag. But before she could get away, the saleswoman stopped her; the dress had just been marked down. The new price was $15; the customer took...
...Such price-cutting near the peak of summer buying had not been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...
Loans Down. In the overall picture, the price cuts were part of what Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. called the "very moderate" recession. The sizable cuts were largely confined to soft goods, lumber, a few other commodities (in the futures market, May wheat hit a flurry of .selling which sent it down 6?) and such surplus items as radio-phonographs, which were cut up to 40% by Magnavox...