Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is considerable confusion as to just who this reseal is Miss O'Hara, who answers, to the title of Princess Mah Jongg, has her sights set on the wrong fellow (Paul Christian) for some time while palling around with the pasha and military governor of Bagdad (Vincent Price). When the Black Robe boss turns out to be somebody else (John Sutton), Christian gets the Princess and Sutton and Price get theirs...
...promoters were quite chummy with the television people, but in that championship bout the gate took a big beating when the fans en masse decided it was easier and cheaper to get a ringside view of the fight in their own living rooms or in the taverns for the price of a few beers...
Unsealed Christmas cards may be sent by surface transportation for two cents, but it is nevertheless urged that senders pay the regular rate (three cents), as the reduced price will not take care of forwarding or return service...
...shift into higher prices has not hurt Woolworth's. Last year the company grossed $623,942,000 (more than double what it did in its best five-and-dime days), for a net of $43,496,000. It expects to do just about as well in 1949. Many of its sales still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have...
...them. He is now producing 1,000,000 franks a day and has sold his entire output for the present to a chain of grocery stores. The franks come only in cans as Davis has not yet worked out a way to preserve their flavor in the bulk. The price...