Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...card puncher. Labor Department Trouble Shooter James F. Dewey perked up, indicated the strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...
...High war prices, caused by money being a lot more plentiful than goods, are already beginning to worry Great Britain. Economist Keynes's plan had a particular appeal as a price-keeper-downer since it would lock up money that would otherwise be spent. To keep down the price of consumer goods, to temper the war inflation for those who do not enjoy its upward effect on wages and speculative profits, Mr. Keynes proposed a double levy on all incomes, one part to consist of tax, the other of low-interest (2½%) loan to the Government...
...Justice Tucker declared himself "satisfied" that the Viscount never "contractually" promised to support the Princess, disparaged much of her evidence as "nebulous and unreliable." The Court then dismissed the case against Lord Rothermere, ordered Princess Stephanie to pay costs, which in a British case of this kind, with top-price lawyers, might run to some...
...weather is apt to be bad, and the price is often regarded as exorbitant. But despite all that, an overflow crowd flocked into the Stadium today. Most of the general public was seated somewhere behind the goalposts, but if there were more of these seats they would always be gobbled up quickly...
...Yale News ascribes the poor showing of Saturday to the Price of the tickets: $3.85 for every seat in the Bowl. Calling for an H-Y-P conference to revise the price scale, the News is rooting for a double rate-$3.50 for seats between the goal lines, and $2.20 for the end zones, on the ground that "the days when crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should...