Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago there was ground for concern that a too rapid rise in the prices of some commodities was encouraging a speculative boom. During the past six months, on the other hand, the general price level and industrial activity have been declining. Government policy must be directed to reversing this deflationary trend...
...trying to get back to the 1926 price level? Yes and no. The object is more to establish a balance of prices than to reach a norm...
...industries, such as agriculture, that operate at a high level of capacity even when business activity is at low levels, the restoration of profits must come pri marily through higher prices. . . . Recently wholesale prices have declined markedly, yet that decline has been reflected in the cost of living only to a very slight degree. . . . It is clear that in the present situation a moderate rise in the general price level is desirable, and that this rise need not and should not extend to all prices...
...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...International Steel Cartel and the Steel Export Association of America have decided on common export price levels for the ensuing fiscal, or cartel, year at lower levels than previously in effect. . . . Moreover, export quotas on some dozen steel commodities have been assigned to various member countries. Thus the U. S. has been assigned definite tonnages which it can sell monthly to Brazil, Argentina, Japan, China and other important steel-consuming countries...