Word: priced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the spring term, the Boston Elevated Railway Co. lowered the rates of a ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...
...religiously" all the way. Their discipleship, they discovered, carried a hefty price tag ?$4,000, despite the fact that they economized by flying tourist class?and their hotel accommodations did not always live up to Fielding's effusive billing...
WITH considerable unhappiness, moneymen still vividly recall the episode in the late summer of 1966 that came to be known as "the credit crunch." Restricting the nation's money supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...
...latest bulge in Germany's foreign trade started three years ago, when a credit squeeze followed by a recession shrank domestic demand. In response, German businessmen turned to aggressive selling abroad. The economy soon rebounded, but recession-cut German prices never caught up with those in other countries. For industrial products, Germany's principal exports, many prices not only failed to rise but actually fell. Retail prices of electric ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, watches and TV sets declined slightly in the past year. The 2½% increase in the consumer price index over the twelve months through last...
...negotiating to borrow $45 million to promote a home franchising program. Still other companies have shown enough growth potential to become takeover targets. International Chemical & Nuclear Corp. two weeks ago agreed to buy Monterey Nursing Inns, a 31-home Ohio chain with 1968 revenues of $3,000,000. The price: an estimated $45 million, an astonishing 209 times Monterey's fiscal 1968 earnings...