Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles' reaction to its flood last week was naturally somewhat like that of a cinema producer whose top-price star creates public scandal: a desire to minimize it as far as possible. Fifth day of the storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California...
...reported profit of $3.10 on each copy of the $5.00 book, Steadman's supporters claimed that the selling price of the volume had been decided up on long before the costs of producing it had been known...
Last week Toledo's Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. was going ahead with plans to manufacture and market Iceolite, at a price of $2.50 per sq. ft. A rink 100 ft. by 50 would thus cost $12,500, but would last a long time. Scratches and shavings cut by skate blades could be melted back smoothly into the rink's surface with flat irons (see cut). The irons would also be used to meld the cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks...
...used car market bogs down, dealers therefore are virtually frozen. Normally there are 500,000 used cars on the market. Last week there were about a million, 800,000 in the hands of the 46,000 new car dealers, the rest in the lots of independent used car dealers. Price cuts of ten to 25% on jalopies (trade parlance for worn-out cars) and the big batch of cars older than two years kept the used car turnover in January almost the same as January a year ago, but the total inventory remained excessively high, particularly in late models. Automotive...
...rule: each round-lot short sale must be made at a price above the last sale-a minimum increase of one-eighth of a point a share...