Word: priced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which the House had already voted to continue for another year. Said Georgia's Russell, ominously: "Senators will hear from their farmer constituents if this...
...level when farm production was high, farmers would not be tempted into overproducing at government expense. Said Aiken: "Let us not look for a check from the government as the first line of attack in the battle for farm prosperity. Let us work first of all for a decent price in the marketplace...
With such mock solemnity Wall Street marked the passing of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the giant utility holding company now finally dissolved under the Holding Company Act. For years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
Leader of the fight for a flexible price-support system for two years, Aiken had succeeded in wooing the Senate to his side, but ran into unexpected opposition from the House, which stubbornly held out for a fixed-parity support. Aiken's plan would allow a flexible parity range from 60 to 90 percent of the base period, depending on current agricultural conditions but still securing a parity principle in the long run. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan introduced a complex farm program so confusing that the Republicans saw their chance to push a plan of their...
...three days of business since the opening of the name-clearance bureau, about 40 sellers' names have been given to seekers of Army game tickets. Two would be economists were caught taking advantage of the high demand by trying to get more than the list price for their small supply of tickets. Council agents phoned both and warned them of a newly adopted plan to "blacklist" scalpers and publish their names in, a Council bulletin...