Word: priced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...
Despite repeated statements by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder that the U.S. would not raise the official price of gold (TIME, Nov. 14), speculators apparently followed the dictum attributed to Bismarck: "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right on bidding up the price of gold stocks. Last week, President Truman pricked the speculators' golden bubble. As long as he was President, he said, the price of gold would not be raised. Next day, speculators unloaded 13,900 shares of Homestake Mining, which dropped 3½ points...
Sound & Fury. For all their persuasive details, such arguments were built on shaky economic ground. Were gold miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price unless the U.S. raised its official price also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world...
While a higher gold price would probably have little effect on domestic prices, some thought that there was still a chance that it might give the U.S. another slight whiff of inflation. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, recently resigned member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, thought that "any tinkering with the dollar at this moment of delicate domestic and international adjustment would be one of the surest roads to demoralization and possible disaster...
Though Scripter Robert Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel...