Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recommended a cut of $157 million in the $5.4 billion appropriation requested for ECA. His reasons: 1) to take advantage of price declines since ECA figured up its needs last October; 2) to steal the thunder from Republican proponents of a flat...
Louisiana's Dixiecrat Congressman F. Edward Hebert put it in language any politician could understand. "So the proposition is very clear," he said on the House floor "Your vote is for sale for a job or jobs." It was a blunt denunciation of the price tag Harry Truman had put on political patronage (see above...
This is because when extra men were placed in rooms during the post-war housing crush, the rate per persons was reduced below its original price. Now, with a return to normal rooming conditions, the old per capita rate goes back into effect...
Board rates have risen twice since the end of the war before being pegged at the current rate, while only one price change has taken place in room charges...
Inflation has made inadequate the $400,000 annual income which Harvard derives from its scholarship endowment, the largest in the world, Monro explained. The price of attending Harvard is now 50 percent over the pre-war cost and hence $600,000 is now needed to finance yearly scholarship grants...